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English: This is a locator map showing Berkeley County in West Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
At the time of the county's formation, Berkeley County comprised areas that now are part of present-day Jefferson and Morgan counties in West Virginia. Most historians believe the county was named for Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt (1718–1770), Colonial Governor of Virginia from 1768 to 1770.
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]
In these counties, the new magisterial districts are used only for the allocation of county officials, and the collection of census data; the former magisterial districts continue to exist in the form of tax districts. [6] A List of the current and former magisterial districts of West Virginia, sorted by county: [1] [7]
Transportation in Berkeley County, West Virginia (10 P) Pages in category "Berkeley County, West Virginia" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Unincorporated communities in Berkeley County, West Virginia (42 P) Pages in category "Populated places in Berkeley County, West Virginia" This category contains only the following page.
List of communities in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, arranged in alphabetical order. Incorporated municipalities are listed in bold . Asterisks (*) indicate a county seat .