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Hurricane (/ ˈ h ɜːr ʌ k ɪ n / HUR-uh-kin) [a] is a city in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 6,977 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] Located roughly equidistant from Charleston and Huntington , it is part of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area .
The 1985 Election Day floods — also known as the Killer Floods of 1985 in West Virginia [1] — produced the costliest floods in both West Virginia and Virginia in November 1985. The event occurred after Hurricane Juan , a tropical cyclone in the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season , meandered near the coast of Louisiana before striking just west ...
Cyclone is an unincorporated community in Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States, along Huff Creek and West Virginia Route 10. [ 1 ] The community was named for the fact a tornado or cyclone struck the area in the 1880s.
Putnam County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 57,440. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Winfield , its largest incorporated city is Hurricane , and its largest community is the census-designated place of Teays Valley . [ 2 ]
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]
View north along WV 34 at US 35 in Putnam County WV 34 crosses the Kanawha River over the Ross Booth Memorial Bridge in Winfield, West Virginia. West Virginia Route 34 is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The southern terminus of the route is at West Virginia Route 3 three miles (5 km) east of Hamlin.
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Mullens is a city in Wyoming County, West Virginia. The population was 1,475 at the time of the 2020 census. [2] Located in a valley along the Guyandotte River within a mountainous region of southern West Virginia, the town was nearly destroyed by flash flooding in July 2001. While the town has attempted to redevelop with the aid of state and ...