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West Virginia Counties
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West Virginia Counties
Forty-eight of the fifty states have operational county governments of which West Virginia is one. There are 55 Counties in West Virginia. These Counties vary greatly in size and population. They range in area from 83 to 1,040 square miles (i.e., Hancock County, WV and Randolph County, WV). Similarly, the population of counties varies tremendously from Wirt County, WV, with its 5,873 residents, to Kanawha County, WV, which is home to 200,073 people.
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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Penn Foster High School
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