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Jefferson County is the easternmost county in the U.S. State of West Virginia. It is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 57,701. [1] Its county seat is Charles Town. [2] The county was founded in 1801, and today is part of the Washington metropolitan area. [3]
Elkins is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. The community was incorporated in 1890 and named in honor of Stephen Benton Elkins, a U.S. Senator from West Virginia. [6] The population was 6,950 at the 2020 census and estimated at 6,895 in 2021. [4]
Map of the Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley in autumn A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
WVNS-TV (channel 59) is a television station licensed to Lewisburg, West Virginia, United States, serving the Bluefield–Beckley–Oak Hill market as an affiliate of CBS, Fox, and MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and has studios on Old Cline Road in Ghent, West Virginia; its transmitter is near Alderson, West Virginia.
Fort Gay is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 288,649. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 288,649.
Washington spent three summers and falls surveying Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck estate, which included all of the present-day Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. In April 1748, he laid off several lots in an area known as the Trough , about ten miles (16 km) south of Romney, and he is known to have been in present-day Romney on October 19, 1749.
North Central West Virginia (sometimes known as "Mountaineer Country") is a region in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The region's largest cities are Morgantown , Fairmont , and Clarksburg . Counties