DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION 
975.4 West Virginia 
19 June 1863 admitted as 35th state Area 24,780 sq. mi. 
Population 1,463,701 in 1920 55 counties 
Sobriquet: Panhandle state Capital: Charleston 
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OUTLINE 
Ohio valley 
Northern Panhandle 
Little Kanawha valley 
Kanawha valley 
Southwestern border counties 
Guyandotte valley 
Tug valley 
Central plateau 
Monongahela valley 
Central counties 
Elk valley 
Gauley valley 
New River valley 
Alleghany crest Mountain counties 
Cheat valley 
Greenbrier valley 
Eastern Panhandle Potomac valley 
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Ohio valley 
Northern Panhandle 
Population in 1920 
19 975 
16 527 
62 892 
Hancock 
Brooke 
Ohio 
Wheeling 
Marshall 
Wetzel 23 069 
Tyler 14 186 
Little Kanawha valley 
Pleasants 7 379 
Wood 42 306 
Parkersburg 
Ritchie 16 506 
33 681 
56 208 
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Wirt 
Gilmer 
Calhoun 
Kanawha vallev 
Jackson 
7 536 
10 668 
10 268 
18 658 
Mason 
Putnam 
Roane 
Kanawha 
Charleston 
Boone 
21 459 
I7 531 
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119 650 
15 319 
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