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Wayne County, West Virginia

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9historic places

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1842formed

38,982pop. 2020

185cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 9 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Ceredo, Fort Gay, Huntington.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 9 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

9 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Camp Mad Anthony Wayne	Huntington	Building	2002
Dunlow Norfolk & Western Railway Depot	Dunlow	Building	2023
First Congregational Church of Ceredo	Ceredo	Building	2021
Fort Gay High School	Fort Gay	Building	2017
Miller, Joseph S., House	Kenova	Building	1989
Ramsdell, Z. D., House (Additional Documentation)	Ceredo	Building	1983
Stark, Henry and Julia Hoard, House	Ceredo	Building	2023
Wayne County World War I Memorial	Wayne	Object	2024
Wildcat Branch Petroglyphs	Fort Gay	Site	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wayne was formed in 1842 (1842-01-18) from Cabell.

WAYNE created by Virginia from CABELL; 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

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

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,760	6,747	14,739	23,619	26,012	35,566	38,696	38,977	46,021	42,903	38,982

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

185 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 185 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adkins Cemetery	38.11703	-82.37209
Adkins Cemetery	38.16453	-82.36598
Adkins Cemetery	38.18953	-82.3757
Adkins Cemetery	38.22092	-82.30431
Adkins Cemetery	38.22815	-82.2902
Adkins Cemetery	38.23481	-82.3182
Adkins White Cemetery	38.00983	-82.27411
Akers Cemetery	38.30965	-82.57071
Alley Cemetery	38.24842	-82.53655
Anderson Cemetery	37.90898	-82.36209
Artrip Cemetery	38.13537	-82.54571
Asbury Cemetery	38.1862	-82.33681
Bailey Cemetery	38.24036	-82.47293
Ball Cemetery	38.14148	-82.49321
Bartram Cemetery	38.14759	-82.52627
Billups Gap Cemetery	38.13398	-82.58488
Blair Cemetery	38.23675	-82.53627
Blair-Hatton Cemetery	38.2437	-82.56043
Blankenship Cemetery	38.21203	-82.36265
Bloss Cemetery	38.3063	-82.44559
Bradshaw Cemetery	38.2237	-82.3582
Brewer Cemetery	37.85482	-82.4057
Browning Cemetery	37.96037	-82.37737
Cassidy Cemetery	38.11648	-82.49626
Cedar Cliff Cemetery	38.24536	-82.31459
Christian Cemetery	38.17925	-82.54654
Christian Cemetery	38.24314	-82.59988
Clark Cemetery	37.98037	-82.30125
Clark Cemetery	38.1462	-82.38543
Community Cemetery	38.19059	-82.40834
Community Memorial Gardens-Dickerson Cemetery	38.20467	-82.44297
Copley Cemetery	38.02315	-82.31792
Covington--Ross Cemetery	38.17675	-82.37015
Cox Cemetery	38.10342	-82.42015
Cox Cemetery	38.10814	-82.43071
Crabtree Cemetery	38.13592	-82.4971
Crescent Hill Cemetery	38.38814	-82.56377
Crockett Cemetery	38.24148	-82.37293
Crockett Cemetery	38.24675	-82.42043
Damron Cemetery	38.07148	-82.47432
Damron Cemetery	38.08037	-82.40876
Damron Cemetery	38.24258	-82.50543
Dan Wallace Cemetery	38.08231	-82.39932
Darnell Cemetery	37.87732	-82.4007
Davis Cemetery	38.12787	-82.36209
Davis Cemetery	38.16065	-82.29098
Davis Cemetery	38.17398	-82.50349
Davis Cemetery	38.22008	-82.57571
Davis Cemetery	38.2412	-82.5946
Dean Cemetery	38.20675	-82.39209
Dock Creek Cemetery	38.35286	-82.56627
Drenner Cemetery	38.18092	-82.35765
Dyer Cemetery	38.0962	-82.24459
Elmwood Cemetery	38.20786	-82.43821
Fairview Cemetery	38.11981	-82.58543
Ferguson Cemetery	37.97009	-82.36598
Ferguson Cemetery	38.0087	-82.40515
Ferguson Cemetery	38.13676	-82.41015
Ferguson Cemetery	38.13925	-82.46432
Finley Cemetery	38.06454	-82.35626
Finley Cemetery	38.12009	-82.32459
Frasher Cemetery	38.09676	-82.57238
Frasher Cemetery	38.11676	-82.32042
Frasher Cemetery	38.11787	-82.58016
Fry Cemetery	38.12037	-82.36765
Fry Cemetery	38.12981	-82.37959
Hanley Cemetery	38.14453	-82.61988
Harless Cemetery	38.07898	-82.48515
Hatton Cemetery	38.22925	-82.60294
Hickory View Cemetery	38.0937	-82.53349
Hillcrest Cemetery	38.35453	-82.56488
Hobbs Cemetery	38.20981	-82.29904
Hooker Cemetery	38.02176	-82.38709
Isaacs Cemetery	38.14842	-82.30903
Jackson Cemetery	38.10564	-82.49682
Jackson Cemetery	38.15898	-82.47626
Jarett Maynard Cemetery	38.05259	-82.33042
Joels Branch Cemetery	38.13148	-82.48849
John Napier Cemetery	38.1087	-82.40793
John Robertson Cemetery	38.10787	-82.48932

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Bartram	38.26286	-82.3207
Millet	37.93426	-82.49071

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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