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Hancock County, West Virginia

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12historic places

—earliest paper

1848formed

29,095pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 12 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Weirton, Newell, New Cumberland.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for West Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Hancock titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 12 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

12 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Dunbar Recreation Center	Weirton	Building	2021
First National Bank-Graham Building	New Cumberland	Building	2000
Hellings, Nathan, Apple Barn	Newell	Building	2002
Johnston-Truax House	Weirton	Building	1993
Marland Heights Park and Margaret Manson Weir Memorial Pool	Weirton	Structure	1993
Marshall House	New Cumberland	Building	2001
Murray, James F., House (Additional Documentation)	Chester	Building	1990
People's Bank	Weirton	Building	1995
Rigas, Dr. George, House	Weirton	Building	2004
Tarr, Peter, Furnace Site	Weirton	Site	1976
Waterford Park	Newell	Building	2002
Wells, William E., House	Newell	Building	2009

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Hancock was formed in 1848 (1848-01-15) from Brooke.

HANCOCK created by Virginia from BROOKE; on 20 June 1863 became a county in the state of West Virginia.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Hancock County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,050	4,445	4,882	6,693	19,975	31,572	34,388	39,615	40,418	32,667	29,095

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

7 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Chapel Hill Cemetery	40.4053	-80.53561
Flats Cemetery	40.53284	-80.58285
Locust Hill Cemetery	40.59161	-80.56803
Nessly Chapel Cemetery	40.55834	-80.63467
New Cumberland Cemetery	40.50146	-80.60358
Saint Pauls Cemetery	40.41732	-80.56147
Three Springs Cemetery	40.40369	-80.55048

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Blackhorse	40.48451	-80.59563
Braithewaite	40.42229	-80.59952
Turkeyfoot	40.52118	-80.53007

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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