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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 Location mi km Destinations Notes; Monroe: Peterstown: 0.00: 0.00: US 219 south – Christiansburg: Virginia state line: WV 12 north – Alta: Southern terminus of WV 12: Rock Camp: WV 122 west – Forest Hill: Eastern terminus of WV 122: Union: WV 3 east – Sweet Springs: South end of WV 3 overlap: Pickaway: WV 3 west – Alderson ...
Formed from Botetourt, Roanoke, Giles, and Monroe (in present-day West Virginia) Counties: Robert Craig, U.S. Representative from Virginia 4,843: 330 sq mi (855 km 2) Culpeper County: 047: Culpeper: 1749: Culpeper County was established in 1749 from Orange County, Virginia. Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, colonial proprietary governor ...
U.S. Route 522 (US 522) is a spur route of US 22 in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.The U.S. Highway travels in a north-south direction, and runs 308.59 miles (496.63 km) from US 60 near Powhatan, Virginia, to its northern terminus at US 11 and US 15 near Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
Became part of WV 39 to match Virginia (which had renumbered its side from SR 501 to SR 39); the original plan was to renumber this road as WV 501, but West Virginia could not do that WV 43 — — US 19 at Muddlety: WV 20 at Craigsville: 1941: 1980 Renumbered as WV 150 in 1980, and then as WV 55 by 1983 WV 43: 4.2: 6.8
U.S. Route 11 (US 11) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway in western Virginia.At 339 miles (546 km), it is the second longest numbered route (after US 58) and longest primarily north–south route in the state.
Unnamed road Alleghany County Line: Culpeper [23] 7.70 12.39 SR 692 (Old Orange Road) Winston Road Racoon Ford Road Orange County Line Gap between segments ending at different points along US 522: Cumberland [24] 0.25 0.40 Buckingham County Line: Gravel Hill Road SR 622 (Trents Mill Road) Dickenson [25] 0.88 1.42 SR 607 (Walnut Street) Unnamed ...
Virginia State Route 167 (SR 167) is a state highway in Botetourt County, Virginia, in the United States. Known as Gateway Crossing, the road was completed in December 2016 as part of a project to ease congestion around the intersection of Interstate 81 (I-81), U.S. Route 220 Alternate (US 220 Alt.) and US 11 in southern Botetourt County. [18]