Kearneysville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Jefferson and
Berkeley Counties, in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ...
's
Eastern Panhandle in the lower
Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley () is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia in the United States. The Valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the east ...
. According to the
2000 census, Kearneysville and its surrounding community has a population of 6,716.
Sites on the National Register of Historic Places
References
External links
Kearneysville Tree Fruit Research and Education CenterLeetown Science CenterNorth Jefferson Elementary SchoolProspect Hall Shooting & Hunting Club
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Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
1756 establishments in the Colony of Virginia
Populated places established in 1756