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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]
On June 23, 2016 flooding impacted Summersville. This resulted in Summersville Middle School being demolished and relocated to a modular setting after flood waters damaged the school. Ground was broken on a new campus for Summersville Middle School, Nicholas County High School, and the Nicholas County Career and Technical Center on June 2, 2020 ...
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Nicholas County is a county located in the central region of U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 24,604. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Summersville . [ 2 ]
Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,932. [5] Its county seat is Elkins. [6] The county was founded in 1787 and is named for Edmund Jennings Randolph. [7] Randolph County comprises the Elkins, West Virginia, Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Summers County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,959. [1] Its county seat is Hinton. [2] The county was created by an act of the West Virginia Legislature on February 27, 1871, from parts of Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer and Monroe counties and named in honor of George W. Summers (1804–1868).
Webster County was formed from parts of Nicholas, Braxton, and Randolph counties in Virginia through the approval of an act of the Virginia General Assembly during its 1859-1860 session. Movement toward the formation of this county began in 1851. [4] [5] Webster became part of West Virginia on June 20, 1863.
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]