West Virginia County Courthouses

The state of West Virginia has 55 counties. 50 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. West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. 5 additional counties were formed from the original counties in the decades following admission.