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- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia abstract "The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, before which West Virginia was part of the state of Virginia. The remaining five (Grant, Mineral, Lincoln, Summers and Mingo) were formed within the state after its admission to the United States on June 20, 1863. At that time, Berkeley County and Jefferson County, the two easternmost counties of West Virginia, refused to recognize their inclusion in the state. In March 1866, the United States Congress passed a joint mandate assenting to their inclusion.The West Virginia Constitution was ratified in 1872, replacing the state constitution created in 1863 when West Virginia became a state. Article 9, Section 8, of the West Virginia Constitution permits the creation of additional counties if a majority of citizens in the proposed new county vote for its creation and the new county has a minimum area of 400 square miles (1,036 km2) and a population of at least 6,000. Creation of a new county is prohibited if it would bring another county below these thresholds. Three counties (Greenbrier, Kanawha and Randolph) have sufficient population and land area to allow a new county to be split off. The remaining counties cannot be split, as either their land area would decrease to under 400 square miles (1,036 km2) or their population would decrease to under 6,000. Population figures are based on the 2010 United States Census.The role of counties in local government had been minimized under the 1863 constitution, which vested most local government authority in a system of townships based on the New England model. The authors of the 1872 constitution chose to return to the system used in Virginia, in which each county was governed by a county court with combined authority for executive, legislative and judicial functions of the county government. In 1880, West Virginia amended its constitution and replaced the county court system with an arrangement that divides county government powers between seven county offices, each of which is independently elected: the county commission, county clerk, circuit clerk, county sheriff, county assessor, county prosecuting attorney, and county surveyor of lands. Counties have only those powers that are expressly granted to them by the state Constitution or by state statute. These powers include, but are not limited to, maintaining the infrastructure of the state, funding libraries, maintaining jails and hospitals, and waste disposal. Reforming public education became a county function in 1933. In May 1933, a county unit plan was adopted. Under this plan, the state's 398 school districts were consolidated into the current 55 county school systems. This enabled public schools to be funded more economically and saved West Virginia millions of dollars.Randolph County is the largest by area at 1,040 square miles (2,694 km2), and Hancock County is the smallest at 83 square miles (215 km2). Kanawha County contributed land to the founding of 12 West Virginia counties and has the largest population (193,063 in 2010). Wirt County has the smallest population (5,717 in 2010). The oldest county is Hampshire, established in 1754, and the newest is Mingo, established in 1895. Spruce Knob, located in Pendleton County, is the state's highest point at 4,863 feet (1,482 m). Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) codes, which are used by the United States government to identify counties uniquely, are five-digit numbers. For West Virginia, they start with 54 and end with the three-digit county code (for example, Barbour County has FIPS code 54001). Each county's code is provided in the table below, linked to census data for that county.".
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- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Abel_P._Upshur.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Abraham_Lincoln.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink American_Revolutionary_War.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Andrew_Jackson.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Anthony_Wayne.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Augusta_County,_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Barbour_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Bath_County,_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Point_Pleasant.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Benjamin_Harrison_V.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Berkeley_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Boone_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Botetourt_County,_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Braxton_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Brooke_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Cabell_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Calhoun_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Carter_Braxton.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Counties_of_Appalachia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lists_of_counties_of_the_United_States_by_state.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Local_government_in_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Category:West_Virginia_counties.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Category:West_Virginia_geography-related_lists.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Census-designated_place.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Clay_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Constitution_of_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Constitutional_Convention_(United_States).
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Continental_Congress.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink County_(United_States).
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Daniel_Boone.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Daniel_Morgan.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Daniel_Webster.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Doddridge_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Edmund_Pendleton.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Edmund_Randolph.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink England.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Fayette_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Federal_Information_Processing_Standards.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink First_Continental_Congress.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Francis_Marion.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_County,_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink George_Mason.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink George_W._Summers.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Georgia_(U.S._state).
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Giles_County,_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Gilmer_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Governor_of_Massachusetts.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Governor_of_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Grant_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Greenbrier_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Greenbrier_River.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Hampshire.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Hampshire_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Hancock_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Hardy_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Harrison_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Clay.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Henry_St._George_Tucker,_Sr..
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Hugh_Mercer.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Israel_Putnam.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Jackson_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink James_McDowell.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink James_Monroe.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink James_Patton_Preston.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink James_Pleasants.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink James_Wood_(governor).
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Jefferson_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink John_C._Calhoun.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink John_Hancock.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink John_Marshall.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink John_Taylor_of_Caroline.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink John_Tyler,_Sr..
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Kanawha_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Kanawha_River.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Kentucky.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Lenape.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Lewis_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Lewis_Wetzel.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Lincoln_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Governors_of_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_National_Historic_Landmarks_in_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_colonial_governors_of_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Local_government.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Logan_(Iroquois_leader).
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Logan_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Marion_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Marshall_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Mason_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Massachusetts.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink McDowell_County,_West_Virginia.
- List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Mercer_County,_West_Virginia.