Pullman, West Virginia
Pullman is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 134 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Pullman was platted in 1883, and named after George Pullman, a businessperson in the rail industry. Geography Pullman is located at (39.188133, -80.951555). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census At the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census there were 154 people, 57 households, and 44 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 71 housing units at an average density of . The Race and ethnicity in the United States Census#2010 census, racial makeup of the town was 99.4% White and 0.6% from two or more races. Of the 57 households 31.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.9% were married couples living together, 5.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.0% had a male householder with ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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