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Fairmont, West Virginia
Fairmont is a city in Marion County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. The population was 18,313 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in West Virginia, eighth-most populous city in the state. It is the principal city of the Micropolitan statistical area, Fairmont micropolitan area, which includes all of Marion County in North Central West Virginia and had a population of 56,205 in 2020. Fairmont is also a principal city of the larger Morgantown metropolitan area, Morgantown–Fairmont combined statistical area. The city is home to Fairmont State University, serving more than 3,000 students. History Early settlements In the eighteenth century, the earliest development of Fairmont consisted of subsistence farming human settlement, settlements. In 1789, Boaz Fleming, a American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War veteran, migrated to western Virginia and purchased a 254-acre farm from Jonathan Bozarth. In 1808, Flem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City (West Virginia)
West Virginia is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 232 municipalities. Cities Charleston WV skyline.jpg, Charleston, the capital of West Virginia and its most populous city HWV Skyline from Collage-1.jpg, Huntington City of Morgantown from the west side of the Monongahela River, May 2012.jpg, Morgantown Boreman view.jpg, Parkersburg PeterTarrFurnaceSite2012.jpg, Weirton Wheeling,_West_Virginia_(2023).jpg, Wheeling MartinsburgWV HistoricDistrict.jpg, Martinsburg Fairmont, West Virginia (2023).jpg, Fairmont Beckley Main Street.jpg, Beckley Clarksburg, West Virginia (2023).jpg, Clarksburg List of municipalities Former towns These communities were once towns but disincorporated. * Dunlow * East Lynn * Jefferson * Littleton * Rhodell * Institute See also * West Virginia * List of census-designated places in West Virginia References {{Lists of cities by U.S. state West Virginia Cities A city is a human settlement of a substant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The agency also makes maps of planets and moons, based on data from U.S. space probes. The sole scientific agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with major offices near Lakewood, Colorado; at the Denver Federal Center; and in NASA Research Park in California. In 2009, it employed about 8,670 people. The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous slogan, adopted on its hundredth anniversary, was "Earth Science in the Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolley Madison
Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation. Previously, founders such as Thomas Jefferson would only meet with members of one party at a time, and politics could often be a violent affair resulting in physical altercations and even duels. Madison helped to create the idea that members of each party could amicably socialize, network, and negotiate with each other without violence. By innovating political institutions as the wife of James Madison, Dolley Madison did much to define the role of the President's spouse, known only much later by the title First Lady—a function she had sometimes performed earlier for the widowed Thomas Jefferson. Madison also helped to furnish the newly constructed W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarksburg, West Virginia
Clarksburg is a city in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. The population was 16,039 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in West Virginia, tenth-most populous city in West Virginia. It is the principal city of the Clarksburg micropolitan area in North Central West Virginia, which had a population of 90,434 in 2020. Clarksburg was named National Small City of the Year in 2011 by the National League of Cities. History Indigenous peoples have lived in the area for thousands of years. The Oak Mounds outside Clarksburg were created by the Hopewell culture mound builders between A.D. 1 and 1000 The first known European visitor to the area that later became Clarksburg was John Simpson (trapper), John Simpson, a Animal trapping, trapper, who in 1764 located his camp on the West Fork River opposite the mouth of Elk Creek (West Virginia), Elk Creek at approximately (39.28128, -80.35145) Settlement and ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The state's List of capitals in the United States, capital is Richmond, Virginia, Richmond and its most populous city is Virginia Beach, Virginia, Virginia Beach. Its most populous subdivision is Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax County, part of Northern Virginia, where slightly over a third of Virginia's population of more than 8.8million live. Eastern Virginia is part of the Atlantic Plain, and the Middle Peninsula forms the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Central Virginia lies predominantly in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont, the foothill region of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which cross the western and southwestern parts of the state. The fertile Shenandoah Valley fosters the state's mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veteran
A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in an job, occupation or Craft, field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in the military, armed forces. A topic of interest for researchers has been the health of military personnel after leaving the military, particularly those who served in combat areas. This concern stems from veterans in countries like the US and Australia, being disproportionately over-represented in psychological and substance abuse disorders relative to the general population. In Australia, the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia), Department of Veterans' Affairs provides a Proactivity, proactive service to address 'real life' health care problems in the veteran community. Public attitude towards veterans Military veterans often receive special treatment in their respective countries. War veterans are generally treated with great respect and honour, although negative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot (American Revolution), Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army during the American Revolutionary War, British Army. The conflict was fought in North America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean. The war's outcome seemed uncertain for most of the war. However, Washington and the Continental Army's decisive victory in the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 led King George III and the Kingdom of Great Britain to negotiate an end to the war in the Treaty of Paris (1783), Treaty of Paris two years later, in 1783, in which the British monarchy acknowledged the independence of the Thirteen Colonies, leading to the establishment of the United States as an independent and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Settlement
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular location, place. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of Dwelling, dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding Urban area, urbanized areas. Settlements include Homestead_(building), homesteads, hamlet (place), hamlets, villages, towns and city, cities. A settlement may have known historical properties such as the date or era in which it was first settled or first settled by particular people. A number of factors like war, erosion, and the fall of great empires can result in the formation of abandoned settlements which provides relics for archaeological studies. The Human settling, process of settlement involves human migration. In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, settlements are "a city, town, village or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work". A settlement co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsistence Farming
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops on smallholdings to meet the needs of themselves and their families. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements. Planting decisions occur principally with an eye toward what the family will need during the coming year, and only secondarily toward market prices. Tony Waters, a professor of sociology, defines "subsistence peasants" as "people who grow what they eat, build their own houses, and live without regularly making purchases in the marketplace". Despite the self-sufficiency in subsistence farming, most subsistence farmers also participate in trade to some degree. Although their amount of trade as measured in cash is less than that of consumers in countries with modern complex markets, they use these markets mainly to obtain goods, not to generate income for food; these goods are typically not necessary for survival and may include sugar, iron roofing-sheets, bicyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgantown Metropolitan Area
The Morgantown Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in North-Central West Virginia, anchored by the city of Morgantown. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 140,038. Counties Communities Incorporated places and CDPs *Places with more than 30,000 inhabitants ** Morgantown (Principal city) *Places with 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants ** Cheat Lake (census-designated place) ** Brookhaven (census-designated place) *Places with 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants ** Cassville (census-designated place) ** Granville ** Kingwood ** Terra Alta ** Star City ** Westover *Places with 500 to 1,000 inhabitants ** Masontown ** Reedsville ** Rowlesburg *Places with fewer than 500 inhabitants ** Albright ** Blacksville ** Brandonville ** Bruceton Mills ** Newburg ** Tunnelton Unincorporated places * Afton *Alpine Lake * Amboy * Arnettsville * Arthurdale *Aurora * Austen * Baker Ridge * Behler * Bertha Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Central West Virginia
North Central West Virginia (sometimes known as "Mountaineer Country") is a region in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The region's largest cities are Morgantown, Fairmont, and Clarksburg. Counties * Monongalia County * Marion County * Harrison County * Taylor County * Doddridge County These counties are sometimes also included in the region. * Barbour County * Lewis County * Upshur County * Preston County * Randolph County * Wetzel County Cities and towns * Morgantown * Fairmont * Mannington * Clarksburg * Bridgeport * Grafton * West Union ''Note: These cities are sometimes included within the region.'' *'' Kingwood'' *''Philippi'' *'' New Martinsville'' *''Weston'' *'' Buckhannon'' *'' Elkins'' Media TV * WBOY-TV ( NBC-12) * EBOY-TV ( ABC-11) * WDTV-TV ( CBS-5) * WNPB-TV ( PBS-24) * WVFX-TV ( FOX-46) Radio * WAJR - News/ Talk/Sports Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
