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Berkeley County
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county in West Virginia, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- Founded
- May 15, 1772
- Seat
- Martinsburg
- Commission president
- Jim Whitacre ( R )
- County commission
- James Barnhart, H.D. Boyd ( R ) , Steve Catlett ( R )
- Total
- 321.56 sq mi (832.8 km )
- Land
- 321.15 sq mi (831.8 km )
- Water
- 0.41 sq mi (1.1 km ) 0.5%
- Rank
- 40th
- Estimate 2025
- 139,522
- Density
- 380.12/sq mi (146.77/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 (Eastern)
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Area codes
- 304, 681
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Senate districts
- 15th , 16th
- House of delegates districts
- 90th-97th
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Berkeley County is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the eastern panhandle region of West Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Hagerstown–Martinsburg metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 122,076, making it the second-most populous of West Virginia's 55 counties, behind Kanawha County. The City of Martinsburg is the county seat.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Berkeley County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.