Mannington (West Virginia)

Marion County

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Mannington is a city in Marion County, West Virginia. The development of Mannington was strongly influenced by the oil and gas boom in the 1890s. At the census in 2000 2.124 inhabitants were counted.

Demography

Data obtained from the census in 2000 2.124 inhabitants by Mannington lived in 884 households; among them were 625 families. The population density was 329.5 per km ². In the resort 990 residential units were recorded. Among the population was 83.9 % White, 2.54% African American; 0.71 % reported belonging to several ethnic groups.

Among the 884 households 28.3 % had children under the age of 18; 52.7 % were married couples living together. 14.4 % of households led by single women, 29.2% were recorded as non- family households. The average household size was 2.88 and the average family size 2.40 persons.

The population was spread out with 23.0% under the age of 18, 7.8 % from 18 to 24, 25.3% 25-44 years, 24.7% from 45 to 64 years and 19.2 % of 65 years or older. The median age was 40 years.

The median household income was $ 26,806, the median family income $ 31,852. The per capita income in Vienna amounted to $ 13,036. Under the poverty line lived 18.3 % of the population.

Literary references

Mannington serves as a template for the fictional town of Grantville, developed by Eric Flint 's novel series 1632 ( series). In the center of the action are the inhabitants of the small American town Grantville, which is displaced from the rural West Virginia in the year 2000 in the turmoil of the Thirty Years War in Thuringia the year 1631. The genre of alternate reality stories attributable series here uses the Mannington in 2000 as a model of a real city to avoid that are " discovered" by individual authors within the thrown into the past fictional urban area surprisingly exceptional academic, personal or military resources.

In the past, stopped writers and fans of the series repeated annual conventions in Mannington from. The third took place in the summer of 2005, the fourth from 4 to 6 August 2006.