Marshall County (West Virginia)
The Marshall County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. In the census in 2010, the County had 33 107 inhabitants and a population density of 41.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Moundsville.
Geography
The County is the southernmost of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and is due to the extended Mason - separate line from the rest of the territory of the State - Dixon.
It is bordered on the east by Pennsylvania and on the west by Ohio, where the limit by the Ohio River is formed.
The Marshall County has an area of 809 square kilometers, of which 13 square kilometers are water surface.
At the Marshall County borders the following counties:
History
The Marshall County was formed on March 12, 1835 from parts of Ohio County. It was named after John Marshall (1755-1835), a former foreign minister (1800-1801) and chairman of many years a judge at the United States (1801-1835) Supreme Court.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Marshall County 33 107 people in 14,155 households. The population density was 41.6 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 14,155 households lived statistically 2.28 per person.
20.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.6 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 38,444. The per capita income was $ 18,989. 17.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Cities and Towns
Citys
- Benwood
- Cameron
- Glen Dale
- McMechen
- Moundsville
- Wheeling1
Unincorporated communities
- Big Run
- Dallas
- Georgetown
- Glen Easton
- Limestone
- Mount Olivet
- Mozart1
- New Vrindaban
- Sherrard
1 - partly in Ohio County