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Preston County

county in West Virginia, United States

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Country: United States
State: West Virginia
Founded: January 19, 1818
Named after: James Patton Preston
Seat: Kingwood
Commission president: Samantha Stone ( R )
County commission: Don Smith ( R ) , Hunter Thomas ( R )
Total: 651 sq mi (1,690 km )
Land: 649 sq mi (1,680 km )
Water: 2.6 sq mi (6.7 km ) 0.4%
Rank: 8th
Estimate 2025: 34,004
Density: 52.7/sq mi (20.4/km )
Time zone: UTC−5 (Eastern)
Summer dst: UTC−4 (EDT)
Area codes: 304, 681
Congressional district: 2nd
Senate district: 14th

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Preston County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 34,216. Its county seat is Kingwood. The county was formed from Monongalia County in 1818 and named for Virginia Governor James Patton Preston.

Preston County is part of the Morgantown, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the southernmost county of the Pittsburgh media market. It is the home of The Buckwheat Festival, a county fair known for making buckwheat pancakes.