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Putnam County
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county in West Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- Founded
- March 11, 1848
- Named after
- Israel Putnam
- Seat
- Winfield
- Largest city
- Hurricane
- Total
- 350 sq mi (910 km )
- Land
- 346 sq mi (900 km )
- Water
- 4.7 sq mi (12 km ) 1.3%
- Estimate 2025
- 56,885
- Density
- 166/sq mi (64.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- putnamcountywv .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 57440
- Area
- 908
- Elevation
- 269
- Official website
- www.putnamcounty.org
- Image
- Putnam Courthouse WV.JPG
- Households
- 21694
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- Commons category
- Putnam County, West Virginia
- inception
- 1818-03-11
- water as percent of area
- 1.3
- native label
- Putnam County
- per capita income
- 32235
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Encyclopedic overview
Putnam County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 57,440. Its county seat is Winfield, its largest incorporated city is Hurricane, and its largest community is the census-designated place of Teays Valley. Putnam County is part of the Huntington–Ashland, WV-KY-OH metropolitan statistical area, across the Kanawha River from Charleston, West Virginia.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Putnam County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.