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Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 84,296, [1] making it West Virginia's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Parkersburg. [2] The county was formed in 1798 from the western part of Harrison County and named for James Wood, governor of Virginia from 1796 to 1799. [3]
This created confusion with county land and tax records, in response to which the legislature provided for the establishment of tax districts following the former magisterial district lines, as they existed on January 1, 1969. In these counties, the new magisterial districts are used only for the allocation of county officials, and the ...
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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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.
The genus was described by Thomas Jefferson in 1799 from remains collected in Haynes Cave, Monroe County, West Virginia. [65] [66] In 1799, that area was considered to belong to the western part of the State of Virginia. Megalonyx was the first genus of fossil vertebrate animal named from the United States. [65]
Davisville (also Clairville or Claysville) is an unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. Its elevation is 620 feet (189 m). [1] It has a post office with the ZIP code 26142. [2] The North Bend Rail Trail passes through the community. [3]
Wheeling is located in northern West Virginia, on what is known as the Northern Panhandle. The area lies within the ecoregion of the Western Allegheny Plateau . [ 27 ] The city is directly across the river from the state of Ohio and only 11 miles (18 km) west of Pennsylvania .