Counties in West Virginia that I have Visited

There are 55 Counties in West Virginia – “The Mountain State“

Also be sure to see my United States County Counting Page for the rest of the states.

I have visited 55 Counties = 100% of Counties in West Virginia

Counties visited are colored-in; counties still needing to be visited are blank.  Map created using Mob Rule.

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Twelve Mile Circle Articles Featuring Places in West Virginia

Markers designate the West Virginia locations featured in Twelve Mile Circle articles.

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Counties in West Virginia

Below are the 55 counties in West Virginia. Although infrequent, counties sometimes do change so please let me know if any of this information is out of date and I will update it. Those counties that I have visited are highlighted in Red. Readers can also link to any articles manually in this section if the map isn’t working.

1. Barbour
2. Berkeley: What Coast are They Guarding, Exactly?; Order in the Court; North Mountain
3. Boone: Big Ugly; Appalachian Loop
4. Braxton: Duck; Orlando (not that one)
5. Brooke
6. Cabell
7. Calhoun
8. Clay
9. Doddridge: West Union
10. Fayette: The New River Gorge; Cathedral Falls; More Ancient Rivers
11. Gilmer: Cut the Corner
12. Grant: County Counter Extraordinaire; Fairfax Stone
13. Greenbrier
14. Hampshire: Flat as a Pancake; County Counter Extraordinaire
15. Hancock: Smallest county in West Virginia (83 square miles); Weirton
16. Hardy: County Counter Extraordinaire
17. Harrison
18. Jackson: Sarvis Fork Bridge; Staats Mill Covered Bridge; Appalachian Distillery
19. Jefferson: The First Steamboat?; What Coast are They Guarding, Exactly?; Circling the MDVAWV Tripoint; Appalachian Trail Counties; Rural Free Delivery; Mistaken Identity; What’s Almost Heaven?; Ghost Signs
20. Kanawha: Largest county population in West Virginia (200,073 people in 2000 Census); West Virginia State Capitol Building; Tornado; Mistaken Identity; Back to the Lines; Not the Usual; East Bank; South Charleston
21. Lewis: Jackson’s Mill; Four Towns, One Name
22. Lincoln: Big Ugly
23. Logan: No, Not That One; Low Clearance
24. Marion: Tendril of Fairmont
25. Marshall: Grave Creek Mound; West Virginia Penitentiary
26. Mason: Even More Spooky; Tu-Endie-Wei State Park; Mothman; Fort Randolph
27. McDowell
28. Mercer: Princeton Railroad Museum; Bluefield on the Border
29. Mineral: County Counter Extraordinaire; Digging for Minerals
30. Mingo: Nolan Toll Bridge; Matewan; Appalachian Loop; Coal House; The Oddity of U.S. Route 52/119
31. Monongalia: Don Knotts
32. Monroe
33. Morgan
34. Nicholas
35. Ohio: Public Street; West Virginia Independence Hall; Wheeling Suspension Bridge
36. Pendleton
37. Pleasants
38. Pocahontas
39. Preston: Hovatter’s Wildlife Zoo; Fairfax Stone; Our Lady of the Pines
40. Putnam: Inland Hurricane
41. Raleigh
42. Randolph: Largest county in West Virginia (1,040 square miles).
43. Ritchie
44. Roane
45. Summers
46. Taylor: Slices of Belgium
47. Tucker: River Headwaters and Sources; Fairfax Stone
48. Tyler
49. Upshur
50. Wayne
51. Webster
52. Wetzel
53. Wirt: Smallest county population in West Virginia (5,873 people in 2000 Census).
54. Wood: Fort Boreman; Quincy Hill Park
55. Wyoming: Thanksgiving Towns

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Quick Facts About West Virginia

• Location: Appalachian United States. See map above.
• Size⁽¹⁾: 24,038 square miles. West Virginia is the 41st largest state. The next larger state is South Carolina and the next smaller state is Maryland.
• Population⁽²⁾: 1,790,832 people. West Virginia is the 39th most populous state. The next more populous state is Idaho and the next less populous state is Hawaii.
• Population Density: 74.5 people per square mile. West Virginia is the 29th most densely populated state. The next more densely populated state is Missouri and the next less densely populated state is Minnesota.
• Bordering States: West Virginia shares a border with 5 states: Pennsylvania; Ohio; Kentucky; Virginia and Maryland.
• Admission to the Union: June 20, 1863. West Virginia was the 35th state admitted to the Union, after Kansas and before Nevada.
• Capital: Charleston.
• Highest Point: 4,861 feet at Spruce Knob. See SummitPost’s Spruce Knob page.
• Lowest Point: 240 feet at the Potomac River in Jefferson County.
• Government website: WV.gov… Your West Virginia Directory!.
• Official Tourism website: West Virginia – Wild and Wonderful.
• Still not enough? See Wikipedia’s West Virginia page.

Sources:

(1) Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by area. Land area only.
(2) Wikipedia: List of states and territories of the United States by population. Estimated population on July 1, 2019.