List of counties in West Virginia
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There are 55 counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
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| County |
FIPS code | County seat[1] | Created[2] | Formed from[2][3] | Meaning of name[2][3] | Population (2020)[4] |
Area[1] | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbour County | 001 | Philippi | 1843 | Harrison, Lewis, and Randolph counties | Philip P. Barbour (1783–1841) United States Speaker of the House (1821–23) |
15,465 | 341 sq mi (883 km2) |  |
| Berkeley County | 003 | Martinsburg | 1772 | Frederick County (Virginia) | Norborne Berkeley (1717–70) Royal Governor of Virginia (1768–70) |
122,076 | 321 sq mi (831 km2) |  |
| Boone County | 005 | Madison | 1847 | Cabell, Kanawha, and Logan counties | Daniel Boone (1734–1820) American frontiersman |
21,809 | 503 sq mi (1,303 km2) |  |
| Braxton County | 007 | Sutton | 1836 | Kanawha, Lewis, and Nicholas counties | Carter Braxton (1736–97) Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
12,447 | 514 sq mi (1,331 km2) |  |
| Brooke County | 009 | Wellsburg | 1796 | Ohio County | Robert Brooke (1761–1800) Governor of Virginia (1794–96) |
22,559 | 89 sq mi (231 km2) |  |
| Cabell County | 011 | Huntington | 1809 | Kanawha County | William H. Cabell (1772–1853) Governor of Virginia (1805–08) |
94,350 | 282 sq mi (730 km2) |  |
| Calhoun County | 013 | Grantsville | 1856 | Gilmer County | John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) United States Vice President (1825–32) |
6,229 | 281 sq mi (728 km2) |  |
| Clay County | 015 | Clay | 1858 | Braxton and Nicholas counties | Henry Clay (1777–1852) United States Senator Kentucky (1823–25) United States Speaker of the House (1849–52) |
8,051 | 342 sq mi (886 km2) |  |
| Doddridge County | 017 | West Union | 1845 | Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie, and Tyler counties | Philip Doddridge (1773–1832) United States Congressman (Virginia) (1829–32) |
7,808 | 320 sq mi (829 km2) |  |
| Fayette County | 019 | Fayetteville | 1831 | Kanawha, Greenbrier, Logan, and Nicholas counties | Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834) French-born American Revolutionary War General |
40,488 | 664 sq mi (1,720 km2) |  |
| Gilmer County | 021 | Glenville | 1845 | Kanawha and Lewis counties | Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802–44) United States Secretary of the Navy (1844) Governor of Virginia (1840–41) |
7,408 | 340 sq mi (881 km2) |  |
| Grant County | 023 | Petersburg | 1866 | Hardy County | Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85) United States President (1869–77) |
10,976 | 477 sq mi (1,235 km2) |  |
| Greenbrier County | 025 | Lewisburg | 1778 | Montgomery County (Virginia) and Botetourt County (Virginia) | Greenbrier River | 32,977 | 1,021 sq mi (2,644 km2) |  |
| Hampshire County | 027 | Romney | 1754 | Augusta County (Virginia) and Frederick County (Virginia) | County of Hampshire in England | 23,093 | 642 sq mi (1,663 km2) |  |
| Hancock County | 029 | New Cumberland | 1848 | Brooke County | John Hancock (1737–93) One of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence Governor of Massachusetts (1780–85) and (1787–93) |
29,095 | 83 sq mi (215 km2) |  |
| Hardy County | 031 | Moorefield | 1786 | Hampshire County | Samuel Hardy (1758–85) Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress (1783–85) |
14,299 | 583 sq mi (1,510 km2) |  |
| Harrison County | 033 | Clarksburg | 1784 | Monongalia County | Benjamin Harrison V (1726–91) Governor of Virginia (1781–84) |
65,921 | 416 sq mi (1,077 km2) |  |
| Jackson County | 035 | Ripley | 1831 | Kanawha, Mason, and Wood counties | Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) United States President (1829–37) |
27,791 | 466 sq mi (1,207 km2) |  |
| Jefferson County | 037 | Charles Town | 1801 | Berkeley County | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) United States President (1801–09) |
57,701 | 210 sq mi (544 km2) |  |
| Kanawha County | 039 | Charleston | 1789 | Greenbrier and Montgomery County (Virginia) | Kanawha River | 180,745 | 903 sq mi (2,339 km2) |  |
| Lewis County | 041 | Weston | 1816 | Harrison County | Charles Lewis (1736–74) American Colonel killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant[5] |
17,033 | 389 sq mi (1,008 km2) |  |
| Lincoln County | 043 | Hamlin | 1867 | Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, and Putnam counties | Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) United States President (1861–65) |
20,463 | 438 sq mi (1,134 km2) |  |
| Logan County | 045 | Logan | 1824 | Cabell and Kanawha counties, Giles County (Virginia), and Tazewell County (Virginia) | Chief Logan (c.1723-80) Mingo leader |
32,567 | 454 sq mi (1,176 km2) |  |
| Marion County | 049 | Fairmont | 1842 | Harrison and Monongalia counties | Francis Marion (1732–95) American Revolutionary War General (1757–82) |
56,205 | 310 sq mi (803 km2) |  |
| Marshall County | 051 | Moundsville | 1835 | Ohio County | John Marshall (1755–1835) United States Secretary of State (1800–01) Chief Justice of the United States (1801–35) |
30,591 | 307 sq mi (795 km2) |  |
| Mason County | 053 | Point Pleasant | 1804 | Kanawha County | George Mason (1725–92) United States Constitutional Convention "Father of the Bill of Rights" |
25,453 | 432 sq mi (1,119 km2) |  |
| McDowell County | 047 | Welch | 1858 | Tazewell County (Virginia) | James McDowell (1795–1851) Governor of Virginia (1843–46) |
19,111 | 535 sq mi (1,386 km2) |  |
| Mercer County | 055 | Princeton | 1837 | Giles County (Virginia) and Tazewell County (Virginia) | Hugh Mercer (1726–77) American Revolutionary War General (1775–76) |
59,664 | 420 sq mi (1,088 km2) |  |
| Mineral County | 057 | Keyser | 1866 | Hampshire County | abundant mineral resources | 26,938 | 328 sq mi (850 km2) |  |
| Mingo County | 059 | Williamson | 1895 | Logan County | Mingo Native Americans | 23,568 | 423 sq mi (1,096 km2) |  |
| Monongalia County | 061 | Morgantown | 1776 | Augusta County (Virginia) | Latin derivation for Monongahela River | 105,822 | 361 sq mi (935 km2) |  |
| Monroe County | 063 | Union | 1799 | Greenbrier County | James Monroe (1758–1831) United States Senator (Virginia) (1790–94) Governor of Virginia (1799–1802) and (1811) United States President (1817–25) |
12,376 | 473 sq mi (1,225 km2) |  |
| Morgan County | 065 | Berkeley Springs | 1820 | Berkeley and Hampshire counties | Daniel Morgan (1736–1802) United States Congressman (Virginia) (1797–99) |
17,063 | 229 sq mi (593 km2) |  |
| Nicholas County | 067 | Summersville | 1818 | Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Randolph counties | Wilson Cary Nicholas (1761–1820) United States Senator (Virginia) (1799–1804) Governor of Virginia (1814–16) |
24,604 | 649 sq mi (1,681 km2) |  |
| Ohio County | 069 | Wheeling | 1776 | Augusta County (Virginia) | Ohio River | 42,425 | 106 sq mi (275 km2) |  |
| Pendleton County | 071 | Franklin | 1788 | Augusta County (Virginia), Rockingham County (Virginia), and Hardy | Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803) First Continental Congress (1774) |
6,143 | 698 sq mi (1,808 km2) |  |
| Pleasants County | 073 | Saint Marys | 1851 | Ritchie, Tyler, and Wood counties | James Pleasants, Jr. (1769–1836) United States Senator (Virginia) (1819–22) Governor of Virginia (1822–25) |
7,653 | 131 sq mi (339 km2) |  |
| Pocahontas County | 075 | Marlinton | 1821 | Bath County (Virginia), Pendleton, and Randolph | Pocahontas (c. 1595–1617) Powhatan Native American who assisted early English settlers |
7,869 | 940 sq mi (2,435 km2) |  |
| Preston County | 077 | Kingwood | 1818 | Monongalia County | James Patton Preston (1774–1843) Governor of Virginia (1816–19) |
34,216 | 648 sq mi (1,678 km2) |  |
| Putnam County | 079 | Winfield | 1848 | Cabell, Kanawha, and Mason counties | Israel Putnam (1718–90) American Revolutionary War General |
57,440 | 346 sq mi (896 km2) |  |
| Raleigh County | 081 | Beckley | 1850 | Fayette County | Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English explorer and poet |
74,591 | 607 sq mi (1,572 km2) |  |
| Randolph County | 083 | Elkins | 1787 | Harrison County | Edmund Jennings Randolph (1753–1813) Governor of Virginia (1786–88) First United States Attorney General (1789–94) |
27,932 | 1,040 sq mi (2,694 km2) |  |
| Ritchie County | 085 | Harrisville | 1843 | Harrison, Lewis, and Wood counties | Thomas Ritchie (1778–1854) nationally influential Virginia newspaper publisher |
8,444 | 454 sq mi (1,176 km2) |  |
| Roane County | 087 | Spencer | 1856 | Gilmer, Jackson, and Kanawha counties | Spencer Roane (1762–1822) Virginia Supreme Court Justice (1794–1822) |
14,028 | 484 sq mi (1,254 km2) |  |
| Summers County | 089 | Hinton | 1871 | Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, and Monroe counties | George W. Summers (1804–68) United States Congressman (Virginia) (1843) |
11,959 | 361 sq mi (935 km2) |  |
| Taylor County | 091 | Grafton | 1844 | Barbour, Harrison, Marion counties | John Taylor of Caroline (1753–1824) United States Senator (Virginia) (1792–94) and (1803) and (1822–24) |
16,705 | 173 sq mi (448 km2) |  |
| Tucker County | 093 | Parsons | 1856 | Randolph County | Henry St. George Tucker (1780–1848) United States Congressman (Virginia) (1815–19) Virginia Supreme Court (1831–41) |
6,762 | 419 sq mi (1,085 km2) |  |
| Tyler County | 095 | Middlebourne | 1814 | Ohio County | John Tyler, Sr. (1747–1813) Governor of Virginia (1808–11) |
8,313 | 258 sq mi (668 km2) |  |
| Upshur County | 097 | Buckhannon | 1851 | Barbour, Lewis, and Randolph counties | Abel Parker Upshur (1790–1844) United States Secretary of the Navy (1841–43) United States Secretary of State (1843–44) |
23,816 | 355 sq mi (919 km2) |  |
| Wayne County | 099 | Wayne | 1842 | Cabell County | "Mad" Anthony Wayne Major General (1745–96) American Revolutionary War (1775–83) and (1792–96) United States Congressman Georgia (1791) |
38,982 | 506 sq mi (1,311 km2) |  |
| Webster County | 101 | Webster Springs | 1860 | Braxton, Nicholas, and Randolph counties | Daniel Webster (1782–1852) United States Senator Massachusetts (1827–41) and (1845–50) United States Secretary of State (1841–53) and (1850–52) |
8,378 | 556 sq mi (1,440 km2) |  |
| Wetzel County | 103 | New Martinsville | 1846 | Tyler County | Lewis Wetzel (1763–1808) noted frontiersman |
14,442 | 359 sq mi (930 km2) |  |
| Wirt County | 105 | Elizabeth | 1848 | Jackson and Wood counties | William Wirt (1772–1834) United States Attorney General (1817–29) |
5,194 | 233 sq mi (603 km2) |  |
| Wood County | 107 | Parkersburg | 1798 | Harrison County | James Wood (1741–1813) Governor of Virginia (1796–99) |
84,296 | 367 sq mi (951 km2) |  |
| Wyoming County | 109 | Pineville | 1850 | Logan County | derived from Lenape Native American term for "wide plain" | 21,382 | 501 sq mi (1,298 km2) |  |
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