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Huntington
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city in Cabell County, West Virginia, United States
Huntington is a city located in Cabell County in West Virginia. It is the second-largest city in the state and serves as an important regional center for the area.
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City of Huntington
Sitting on the Ohio River at the point where West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky meet, Huntington is home to educational and cultural opportunities as well as the largest river port in the United States., Sitting on the Ohio River at the point where West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky meet, Huntington is home to educational and cultural opportunities as well as the largest river port in the United States., https://www.cityofhuntington.com/
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Huntington
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wayne County
- Population
- 46842
- Area
- 47.819004
- Elevation
- 172
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Cabell County
- Founded by
- Collis Potter Huntington
- Official website
- www.cityofhuntington.com
- Image
- HWV Collage.jpg
- Households
- 19520
- Dialing code
- 304
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- postal code
- 25724
- Commons category
- Huntington, West Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Huntington, West Virginia
- Commons gallery
- Huntington, West Virginia
- inception
- 1871-02-27
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Huntington, West Virginia
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Huntington, West Virginia
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- Sumampattus
- water as percent of area
- 12.1451
- per capita income
- 23166
- P12749
- Mbabane Highlanders F.C.
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Encyclopedic overview
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County and sits at the confluence of the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers in the southwestern part of the state. With a population of 46,842 at the 2020 census (estimated at 44,942 in 2024), Huntington is the second-most populous city in West Virginia. The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, spanning seven counties across West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, has an estimated 368,000 residents.
Surrounded by extensive natural resources, the area was first settled in 1775 as Holderby's Landing. Its location was selected as ideal for the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which founded Huntington as one of the nation's first planned communities to facilitate transportation industries. The city quickly developed after the railroad's completion in 1871 and is eponymously named for the railroad company's founder, Collis Potter Huntington. The city became a hub for manufacturing, transportation, and industrialization, with an industrial sector based in coal, oil, chemicals and steel. After World War II, due to the shutdown of these industries, the city lost nearly 46% of its population, from a peak of 86,353 in 1950 to 54,844 in 1990.
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