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Parkersburg
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city in and county seat of Wood County, West Virginia
Parkersburg is a city located in Wood County, West Virginia, and serves as the county seat for that region. As the county seat, it functions as the administrative and governmental center for Wood County.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Parkersburg
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wood County
- Population
- 29738
- Area
- 31.996375
- Elevation
- 187
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Body of water
- Little Kanawha River
- Capital of
- Wood County
- Official website
- www.parkersburg-wv.com
- Image
- Boreman view.jpg
- Households
- 13119
- Dialing code
- 304
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- Commons category
- Parkersburg, West Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Parkersburg, West Virginia
- water as percent of area
- 4.3182
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Parkersburg, West Virginia
- category for people born here
- Q28653237
- inception
- 1810-00-00
- P8168
- Kennington
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Parkersburg
- office held by head of government
- mayor
- postal code
- 26106
- per capita income
- 23408
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Encyclopedic overview
Parkersburg is a city in Wood County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-most populous city and the center of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area. The city's population was 29,749 at the 2020 census, and its metro population was 89,490.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parkersburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.