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Unsigned route. WV 7. 102.5. 165.0. SR 536 at the Ohio state line, west end of New Martinsville Bridge in New Martinsville. MD 39 at the Maryland state line east of Corinth. 01922-01-01. 1922.
West Virginia State Highway System. The West Virginia State Highway System is an integrated system of numbered roads in the U.S. state of West Virginia. These highways were coordinated by the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways.
Interstate 64 in West Virginia. Interstate 64 ( I-64) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of West Virginia. It travels east–west through the state for 189 miles (304 km) passing by the major towns and cities of Huntington, Charleston, Beckley, and Lewisburg .
November 8, 1954–present. I-77 enters West Virginia from Virginia via the East River Mountain Tunnel, running concurrentlywith US Route 52(US 52). It surfaces in Mercer Countyto the east of Bluefield as a four-lane freeway. I-77's first exit in West Virginia is 0.6 miles (0.97 km) north of the state line; US 52 leaves the highway here.
United States National Radio Quiet Zone. Coordinates: 38.375°N 79.5°W. The NRQZ includes portions of West Virginia, Virginia, and a small part of Maryland. The National Radio Quiet Zone ( NRQZ) is a large area of land in the United States designated as a radio quiet zone, in which radio transmissions are restricted by law to facilitate ...
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
U.S. Route 60 ( US 60) runs northwest to southeast across the central and southern portions of West Virginia. It runs from the Kentucky state line at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and Kenova. The road passes through Huntington, Charleston, and White Sulphur Springs. The route exits the state into Virginia, running concurrently with Interstate 64 (I ...
Spruce Mountain, located in eastern West Virginia, is the highest ridge of the Allegheny Mountains. The whale-backed ridge extends for only 16 miles (26 km) from northeast to southwest, but several of its peaks exceed 4,500 feet (1,400 m) in elevation. The summit, Spruce Knob (4,863 ft; 1,482 m), [1] is the highest Allegheny Mountain point both ...