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Upshur County
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county in West Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- Founded
- March 26, 1851
- Named after
- Abel Parker Upshur
- Seat
- Buckhannon
- Largest city
- Buckhannon
- Total
- 355 sq mi (920 km )
- Land
- 355 sq mi (920 km )
- Water
- 0.1 sq mi (0.26 km ) 0.03%
- Estimate 2025
- 23,758
- Density
- 67.1/sq mi (25.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- www .upshurcounty .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 23816
- Area
- 919
- Official website
- www.upshurcounty.org
- Image
- Upshur County Courthouse Buckhannon.jpg
- Households
- 9592
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- Commons category
- Upshur County, West Virginia
- inception
- 1851-03-26
- water as percent of area
- 0.03
- native label
- Upshur County
- per capita income
- 26401
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Upshur County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,816. Its county seat is Buckhannon. The county was formed in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis counties and named for Abel Parker Upshur, a distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia. Upshur served as United States Secretary of State and Secretary of the Navy under President John Tyler.
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