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Buckhannon

city in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States
Place city_in_the_united_states Q600504

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States
Official website
www.buckhannonwv.org[4]
Official name
Buckhannon[8]

Location

Country
United States[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.989°, -80.224°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Upshur County[1]

Population and size

Area
+7.596423, +7.333301[11][12]
Elevation above sea level
+436[10]
Population
+5639, +5186[5][6]

Codes

Postal code
26201[3]
More facts +5
Capital of
Upshur County[7]
Number of households
+2081[9]
Per capita income
+22247[15]
Territory overlaps
Buckhannon urban area[14]
Water as percent of area
+0[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Buckhannon en Buckhannon, West Virginia en Buckhannon, WV ar بيوكانان ar بيوكانان (فيرجينيا الغربية) es Buckhannon, Virginia Occidental fa بوکهانون ja バックハノン ru Бакханнон uk Бакгеннон zh 巴克漢農
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
148962362
Library of Congress authority ID
n83151974
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Buckhannon West Virginia.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
23571
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/West_Virginia/Localities/B/Buckhannon/
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--75462
E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
682
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Buckhannon
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
54-11188
Facebook location ID
109543785738286
FactGrid item ID
Nekrasov-Veskyd
Freebase ID
/m/010y_3
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GNIS Feature ID
1536594, 2390570
GeoNames ID
4800587
MusicBrainz area ID
88aec6fa-563b-4c54-ae23-65881f122f7e
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007557392205171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
240006
Quora topic ID
Buckhannon-WV
Topic's main category
Category:Buckhannon, West Virginia
UN/LOCODE
USBHN
WOEID
2371094
Who's on First ID
101731519
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJymxYmTrg8CMBbRQ7TT73
Yale LUX ID
place/8c4a71da-201c-40b3-a5e1-67291bb616cf

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🔗 Connections
People born here 2
Jayne Anne Phillips, John G. Jackson
Capital of 1
Upshur County
Contained subdivisions 1
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Country 1
United States
FactGrid item ID 1
Nekrasov-Veskyd
Instance of 1
city in the United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Upshur County
People who died here 1
Daniel D. T. Farnsworth
Residents 1
Pare Lorentz
← Capital 1
Upshur County
← FactGrid item ID 1
Gozdowice
← Headquarters location 1
West Virginia Wesleyan College
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . 2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 26w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Category for people born here → Wikidata item
    Capital of → Upshur County
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 38.9892, 'lon': -80.2242}
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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