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) |  |
