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Mason County
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county in West Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- Founded
- January 2, 1804
- Seat
- Point Pleasant
- Largest city
- Point Pleasant
- Total
- 445 sq mi (1,150 km )
- Land
- 431 sq mi (1,120 km )
- Water
- 14 sq mi (36 km ) 3.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 24,707
- Density
- 59.1/sq mi (22.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- masoncountywv .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- George Mason
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- West Virginia
- Capital
- Point Pleasant
- Population
- 25453
- Area
- 1152
- Shares border with
- Gallia County
- Official website
- www.masoncounty.wv.gov
- Image
- Point Pleasant monument-square.jpg
- Households
- 10593
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- native label
- Mason County
- topic's main category
- Category:Mason County, West Virginia
- Commons category
- Mason County, West Virginia
- inception
- 1804-01-02
- different from
- Mason County
- water as percent of area
- 3.1
- per capita income
- 27819
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Mason County, West Virginia
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Encyclopedic overview
Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,453. Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Before the Civil War, the county was in the State of Virginia.
Mason County is part of the Point Pleasant, WV-OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mason County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.