Winchester, VA–WV MSA (Virginia) - Location

Winchester, VA–WV MSA is a U.S.

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(MSA) as defined by the

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(OMB) as of June, 2003. This should not be confused with the City of

Winchester, Virginia Winchester is the most north western independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Frederick County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Winchester wit ...

, the most populous community within this MSA. The population of the MSA as the 2015

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estimates is 133,836.

MSA components

''Note: Since a state constitutional change in 1871, all cities in

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are

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and they are not legally located in any county. The OMB considers these independent cities to be

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s for the purpose of defining MSAs in Virginia. Each MSA is listed by its counties, then cities, each in alphabetical order, and not by size.'' Winchester, VA–WV MSA includes areas in Virginia and the State of

West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the ...

. Counties *

Hampshire County, West Virginia Hampshire County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 23,093. Its county seat is Romney, West Virginia, Romney, West Virginia's oldest town ( ...

Frederick County, Virginia Frederick County is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,419. Its county seat is Winchester. The county was formed in 1743 by the splitting of Orange County. It is Virginia's northernmost county ...

Independent cities * City of Winchester, Virginia

Communities

Places with more than 10,000 inhabitants

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

(Principal city)

Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants

* Shawnee Land, Virginia (census-designated place) *

Romney, West Virginia Romney is a town in and the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,722 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History Established by consecutive acts of the V ...

* Stephens City, Virginia *

Middletown, Virginia Middletown is a town in Frederick County, Virginia, United States, in the northern Shenandoah Valley. The population was 1,265 at the 2010 census, up from 1,015 at the 2000 census. History Middletown was chartered on May 4, 1796. Some of the ...

Places with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants

Springfield, West Virginia Springfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in northwestern Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, Springfield had a population of 477. Springfield is located north of Romney along West Virginia Route 28 ...

(census-designated place) *

Capon Bridge, West Virginia Capon Bridge is a town in eastern Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States, along the Northwestern Turnpike ( U.S. Route 50), approximately west of Winchester, Virginia. The population was 418 at the 2020 census. Originally known as "Gl ...

Green Spring, West Virginia Green Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) and railroad town in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 218. Green Spring is located north of Springfield on Green Spring Road (West Virginia ...

(census-designated place) *

Lake Holiday, Virginia Lake Holiday is a artificial lake located northwest of Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia, United States. The lake flows into Isaacs Creek, an east-flowing tributary of Back Creek, which flows north through West Virginia to the Potom ...

(census-designated place)

Unincorporated places

References

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