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Elkins

city in West Virginia, United States
Place City In The United States Q952594

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States, county seat[5]
Official website
www.cityofelkinswv.com[7]
Official name
Elkins[11]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.921°, -79.851°
Located in or next to body of water
Tygart Valley River[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Randolph County[2]

Population and size

Area
+9.394524, +8.874727[14][15]
Elevation above sea level
+587[13]
Population
+7094, +6934[8][9]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 7,094 · 6,934 GeoNames 7,226 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
26241[6]
More facts +5
Capital of
Randolph County[10]
Number of households
+2711[12]
Per capita income
+22559[18]
Territory overlaps
Elkins urban area[17]
Water as percent of area
+0[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Elkins, West Virginia en Elkins en Elkins, WV ar إلكينز el Έλκινς es Elkins (Virginia Occidental) fa الکینس ja エルキンズ ru Элкинс uk Елкінс vi Elkins, Tây Virginia zh 厄爾金斯 zh 埃尔金斯 zh 埃爾金斯 zh-hans 埃尔金斯 (西维珍尼亚州)
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
123163301
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81042989
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Elkins West Virginia Davis Avenue.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
26789
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/West_Virginia/Localities/E/Elkins/
E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
2189
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
54-24580
FactGrid item ID
Racławice
Freebase ID
/m/010yqj
GNIS Feature ID
1551037, 2390585
GeoNames ID
4805033
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
elkins-0
Show all 23 identifiers +11
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0443439
J9U entity ID
987007557202105171
MusicBrainz area ID
f3958430-4a71-4041-9fc9-8d66cfc46f4f
OpenStreetMap relation ID
240079
Quora topic ID
Elkins-WV
Topic's main category
Category:Elkins, West Virginia, Wikidata item
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10042240
UN/LOCODE
USEKN
Who's on First ID
101731737
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcwxt39xHQk343Jpv78md
Yale LUX ID
place/4321f056-cad6-4326-ab1e-6320c6946a5a

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🔗 Connections
People born here 6
Will Hare, William Wallace Barron, Charles R. Holland, Fuzzy Haskins, Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Robert Lee Wolverton
Instance of 2
county seat, city in the United States
Capital of 1
Randolph County
Contained subdivisions 1
The Inter-Mountain
Country 1
United States
FactGrid item ID 1
Racławice
Located in or next to body of water 1
Tygart Valley River
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Randolph County
People who died here 1
Herman G. Kump
Topic's main category 1
Category:Elkins, West Virginia
← Capital 1
Randolph County
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Elkins, West Virginia
← Place of publication 1
The Inter-Mountain
← Work location 1
Howard Sutherland
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Summary

Elkins is a city in the United States[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity W.Va emerging0.662 independent sources

evidence “ELKINS, W.Va – Multiple agencies, including the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department raided an Elkins vape shop and and two homes confiscating more than three pounds of THC illegal products, guns and cash.” wajr.com · read source

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . 2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26w ago · Shuaib-bot bot · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Area → 9.394524 square kilometre, 8.874727 square kilometre
    Country → United States
    Per capita income → 22,559 United States dollar
    Category for people born here → Wikidata item
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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