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Weirton
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city in West Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- Counties
- Hancock , Brooke
- Incorporated
- July 1, 1947
- Named after
- Ernest T. Weir
- Mayor
- Dean M. Harris
- City
- 19.27 sq mi (49.91 km )
- Land
- 18.05 sq mi (46.76 km )
- Water
- 1.22 sq mi (3.15 km )
- Elevation
- 750 ft (230 m)
- Estimate 2021
- 18,813
- Density
- 994.4/sq mi (383.95/km )
- Urban
- 70,889 (US: 389th )
- Metro
- 116,903 (US: 334th )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 54-85156
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Weirton (/ˈwɪərtən/ WEER-tən) is a city in Hancock and Brooke counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located along the Ohio River in the state's northern panhandle bordering Ohio and Pennsylvania. The population was 19,163 at the 2020 census, making it the seventh-most populous city in West Virginia.
Weirton was incorporated in 1947 after the consolidation of various small towns in the vicinity of the Weirton Steel Corporation, founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909. It is a principal city of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area, which had a population of 116,903 residents in 2020; it is also a major city in the western part of the Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Weirton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.