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In 2008 there were 51,376 crimes reported in West Virginia, including 67 murders. [1] West Virginia's ten worst cities statistically to live in are Fairmont, South Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Beckley, Wheeling, Charleston and Huntington with an annual crime rate of 394.
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]
It is the largest metropolitan area entirely within the state of West Virginia. The Huntington Metro Area adds to the Charleston–Huntington, WV-OH-KY CSA and spans three states (West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio), while the core county of the Charleston area, Kanawha County , is more populous than the West Virginia portion of the Huntington area.
Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the seat of Kanawha County. [9] Located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers. The population was 48,864 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ]
Like much of Charleston, the West Side suffers from large tracts of urban decay with 31% of West Side buildings vacant as of 2019 [2] as Charleston overall has lost roughly 45% of its peak population and is part of the Rust Belt. Over 40% of children on the West Side are living in poverty, [3] more than double the national average (17.5%). [4]
Maple Terrace Court and Walton Apartments is a group of historic dwellings located at Charleston, West Virginia.Maple Terrace Court is a row of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick urban townhouses built in 1914 in the Colonial Revival-style with each two-bay residential units featuring slate-shingled gable roofs with gabled dormers, concrete foundations scored to resemble cut stone, and brick front porches.
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