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West Virginia counties

55counties
1,160historic places
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55 counties have formation records (oldest: Hampshire County, 1754). 55 counties have decade population series. 10 counties have nearby NPS units. 17 counties are near ABPP Civil War study areas. 55 counties have GNIS places (3,743 cemeteries statewide in this extract).

See each county page for charts, formation parents, NPS sites, cemeteries, battlefields, and HMdb links.

Barbour County 13 places
Berkeley County 122 places
Boone County 4 places
Braxton County 10 places
Brooke County 24 places
Cabell County 45 places
Calhoun County 2 places
Clay County 1 places
Doddridge County 9 places
Fayette County 28 places
Gilmer County 10 places
Grant County 7 places
Greenbrier County 48 places
Hampshire County 30 places
Hancock County 12 places
Hardy County 25 places
Harrison County 22 places
Jackson County 11 places
Jefferson County 97 places
Kanawha County 94 places
Lewis County 14 places
Lincoln County 2 places
Logan County 5 places
Marion County 24 places
Marshall County 12 places
Mason County 14 places
McDowell County 19 places
Mercer County 21 places
Mineral County 11 places
Mingo County 8 places
Monongalia County 50 places
Monroe County 25 places
Morgan County 18 places
Nicholas County 13 places
Ohio County 59 places
Pendleton County 13 places
Pleasants County 2 places
Pocahontas County 24 places
Preston County 21 places
Putnam County 7 places
Raleigh County 11 places
Randolph County 40 places
Ritchie County 6 places
Roane County 7 places
Summers County 9 places
Taylor County 6 places
Tucker County 10 places
Tyler County 10 places
Upshur County 7 places
Wayne County 9 places
Webster County 7 places
Wetzel County 4 places
Wirt County 6 places
Wood County 48 places
Wyoming County 4 places