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West Virginia's area codes (red area) Area codes 304 and 681 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the entirety of the U.S. state of West Virginia . The numbering plan area was established in October 1947 with area code 304, as one of the eighty-six original North American area codes .
Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area is located in Morgan and Berkeley Counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. It encompasses 22,928 acres (92.79 km 2), mostly covered with mixed oak and pine forest, although about 3,500 acres (14 km 2) are covered with mixed hardwoods. [1] The 205-acre (83 ha) Sleepy Creek Lake is located entirely ...
Sleepy Creek Lake is a reservoir located at an elevation of 1,099 feet (335 m) [1] within the 23,000-acre (90 km 2) Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area, which lies within both Morgan and Berkeley counties. The lake is nestled between two mountain ridges: Sleepy Creek Mountain (1,905 feet [581 m]) and Third Hill Mountain (2,172 feet [662 m ...
The southern end of Sleepy Creek Mountain, Shockeys Knob (1,873 feet [571 m]), lies in northern Frederick County, Virginia and is shared by Berkeley and Morgan counties in West Virginia. The mountain continues along southwest–northeast orientation between the two counties and peaks again at High Rock (1,811 feet [552 m]).
[3] [4] A 1933 map of Hampshire County placed Concord at the location of the former L Ridge School. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Cacapon Mountain and the Cacapon River valley are positioned approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Concord, and Timber Ridge is located approximately 1.4 miles (2.3 km) to the community's east.
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]
Concord is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Concord, Hampshire County, West Virginia Athens, West Virginia , formerly known as Concord, and location of Concord University
Created on May 15, 1772, [6] by an act [7] of the House of Burgesses from the northern third of Frederick County when it was part of Virginia, Berkeley County went on to become West Virginia's second-oldest county after that state seceded from Virginia in 1863 during the Civil War.