List of counties in West Virginia
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list-of-counties-in-west-virginia-176-11171826
title:
List of counties in West Virginia
text:
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. Five additional counties were formed from the original counties in the decades following admission. After the Civil War, Berkeley County and Jefferson County, the
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Subdivisions of a U.S. state
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia
date created:
2002-06-18T20:05:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T18:16:27Z
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fields total:
13
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