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Harrison County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 65,921, making it West Virginia's 7th most populous county. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its county seat is Clarksburg . [ 3 ]
On January 1, 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths. [3] The Eastern Regional Jail in Martinsburg, the first of the state's 10 regional jails opened in May 1989. The regional jails would gradually replace the 55 county jails. [4]
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
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West Milford is located at (39.202490, -80.403719), [7] along the West Fork River in southern Harrison County [ 8 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.53 square miles (1.37 km 2 ), all land.
The population of the city was 16,039 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in West Virginia. [3] It is the principal city of the Clarksburg micropolitan area, which had a population of 90,434 in 2020. [5] Clarksburg was named National Small City of the Year in 2011 by the National League of Cities.
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