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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
- Named after
- Abel P. Upshur
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Capital
- Buckhannon
- Population
- 23816
- Area
- 919
- Shares border with
- Webster County
- Official website
- www.upshurcounty.org
- Image
- Upshur County Courthouse Buckhannon.jpg
- Households
- 9592
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Upshur County, West Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Upshur County, West Virginia
- Commons category
- Upshur County, West Virginia
- inception
- 1851-03-26
- different from
- Upshur County
- water as percent of area
- 0.03
- native label
- Upshur County
- per capita income
- 26401
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Geography
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