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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]
County seat State capital and county seat. Map of the United States with West Virginia highlighted. 2023 Rank ... Town 2,804 2,887 −2.87%:
Pennsylvania state line — — WV 230 — — Halltown: Shepherdstown — — WV 243 — — Arden: US 11 at Tablers Station: 2024: current WV 251 — — Wheeling: Wheeling — — WV 252 — — Wheeling: Wheeling — — Route may no longer exist as Aetnaville Bridge is closed. WV 259 — — Virginia state line: Virginia state line ...
West Virginia counties administer and collect property taxes, although property tax rates reflect levies for state government, county governments, county boards of education and municipalities. Counties may also impose a hotel occupancy tax on lodging places not located within the city limits of any municipality that levies such a tax.
Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, and Morgan Counties were part of the Unionist state of West Virginia created in 1863. Shortly after West Virginia gained statehood, Mineral and Grant Counties were created from Hampshire and Hardy in 1866. The eastern panhandle includes West Virginia's oldest chartered towns (1762) of Romney and Shepherdstown.
The northern panhandle is one of the two panhandles in the U.S. state of West Virginia.It is a culturally and geographically distinct region of the state. It is the state's northernmost extension, bounded by Ohio and the Ohio River on the north and west and the state of Pennsylvania on the east.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Cities in West Virginia. ... Cities in Berkeley County, West Virginia (1 C, 1 P) Cities in Boone County, ...
Districts 10 and 11 were planned in the case of other counties joining the state. Only Frederick County in District 11 did not end up joining the state. [3] 1872 District boundaries as they were defined during the second West Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1872. District 12 was added. [4] 1891 District 13 was added. When Mingo County ...