Raleigh County

county in West Virginia, United States
Administrative Area County Of West Virginia Q501815

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of West Virginia, county of Virginia
Inception
January 23, 1850[12]
Native label
Raleigh County

Location

Located in the administrative territorial entity
West Virginia, Virginia[2]

Population and size

Area
+1578
Elevation above sea level
+722
Population
75k (75k–79k, n=7)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
More facts +9
Capital
Beckley[4]
Described by source
The American Cyclopædia[22]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Beckley metropolitan area
NCI Thesaurus ID
C110721
Number of households
+31116
Per capita income
+24608
Water as percent of area
+0.7
🏷️ Also known as
en Raleigh County, WV en Raleigh County en Raleigh County, Virginia en Raleigh County, West Virginia ar مقاطعة رالي es Condado de Raleigh es Condado de Raleigh, Virginia Occidental fa شهرستان رالی fi Raleigh’n piirikunta fr Comte de Raleigh fr comté de Raleigh fr Raleigh County he מחוז ראלי hu Raleigh megye it contea di Raleigh ja ローリー・カウンティ ja ローリー郡 ko 롤리군 pl Hrabstwo Raleigh ro Comitatul Raleigh
🔖 Identifiers · 27
VIAF cluster ID
145438045
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82070022
ArchINFORM location ID
21187
E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
1981
FIPS 6-4 ID
54081
Freebase ID
/m/0mlcw
GNIS Feature ID
1550047
GeoNames ID
4819310
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2002290
HASC
US.WV.RL
Show all 27 identifiers +15
INaturalist place ID
1016
J9U entity ID
987007534247805171
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.54081
OBO Gazetteer ID
00153294
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2794367
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2535274
Our Campaigns container ID
5657
Taxonomicon ID
1808366
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039793
UMLS CUI
C3828412
Who's on First ID
102083349
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJtCFchPMWPrxJryGvQQbd

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Contained subdivisions 30
Shares border with 6
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Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
← Category combines topics 2
Capital 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
Named after 1
People born here 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital of 1
← Category's main topic 1
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Summary

Raleigh County is a county of West Virginia[1].

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Physical Characteristics

Raleigh County covers an area of {'amount': '+1578'}[23]. It sits at an elevation of {'amount': '+722'}[24].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Raleigh County, Wes
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Raleigh County, West Virginia.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States pres"
  2. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3828412
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00153294
    Taxonomicon ID → 1808366
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #31546"
  3. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.raleighcounty.com
    Inception → January 23, 1850
    Capital → Beckley
    Instance of → county of West Virginia, county of Virginia
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NCI Thesaurus ID: C110721, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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