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Preston County
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county in West Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- Founded
- January 19, 1818
- Named after
- James Patton Preston
- Seat
- Kingwood
- Commission president
- Samantha Stone ( R )
- County commission
- Don Smith ( R ) , Hunter Thomas ( R )
- Total
- 651 sq mi (1,690 km )
- Land
- 649 sq mi (1,680 km )
- Water
- 2.6 sq mi (6.7 km ) 0.4%
- Rank
- 8th
- Estimate 2025
- 34,004
- Density
- 52.7/sq mi (20.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 (Eastern)
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Area codes
- 304, 681
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Senate district
- 14th
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- James Patton Preston
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Capital
- Kingwood
- Population
- 34216
- Area
- 1687
- Elevation
- 526
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Monongalia County
- Official website
- www.prestoncountywv.org
- Image
- Preston County Courthouse.JPG
- Households
- 12430
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- Commons category
- Preston County, West Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Preston County, West Virginia
- inception
- 1818-01-19
- water as percent of area
- 0.4
- native label
- Preston County
- per capita income
- 25331
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Encyclopedic overview
Preston County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 34,216. Its county seat is Kingwood. The county was formed from Monongalia County in 1818 and named for Virginia Governor James Patton Preston.
Preston County is part of the Morgantown, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the southernmost county of the Pittsburgh media market. It is the home of The Buckwheat Festival, a county fair known for making buckwheat pancakes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Preston County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.