Harpers Ferry
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town in West Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Mayor
- Gregory Vaughn ( I )
- Total
- 0.63 sq mi (1.62 km )
- Land
- 0.54 sq mi (1.39 km )
- Water
- 0.089 sq mi (0.23 km )
- Elevation
- 509 ft (155 m)
- Density
- 526.9/sq mi (203.45/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 54-35284
- Website
- www .harpersferrywv .us
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- County
- Jefferson
- Type
- Mayor-Council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Harpers Ferry
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Jefferson County
- Population
- 269
- Area
- 1.4
- Elevation
- 149
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Body of water
- Shenandoah River
- Shares border with
- Bolivar
- Official website
- www.harpersferrywv.us
- Image
- 2010-09-02-Harpers-Ferry-From-Maryland-Heights-Panorama-Crop.jpg
- Households
- 148
- Dialing code
- 304
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- Commons category
- Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
- postal code
- 25425
- inception
- 1751-00-00
- native label
- Harpers Ferry
- water as percent of area
- 12.8383
- twinned administrative body
- Chatham-Kent
- different from
- Harpers Ferry
- Köppen climate classification
- humid subtropical climate
- per capita income
- 53795
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Encyclopedic overview
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 269 at the 2020 United States census. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers in the lower Shenandoah Valley, where Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet, it is the easternmost town in West Virginia as well as its lowest point above sea level.
Originally named Harper's Ferry after an 18th-century ferry owner, the town lost its apostrophe in 1891 in an update by the United States Board on Geographic Names. It gained fame in 1859 when abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the Harpers Ferry Armory in a doomed effort to start a slave rebellion in Virginia and across the South. During the American Civil War, the town became the northernmost point of Confederate-controlled territory, and changed hands several times due to its strategic importance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harpers Ferry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.