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Shinnston

city in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States
Place City In The United States Q2709202

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States
Inception
1778[6]
Official name
Shinnston[10]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 39.394°, -80.300°[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Harrison County[2]

Population and size

Area
4.329369, 4.479397
Elevation above sea level
283.0, 283.0
Population
2,201, 2,328[8][9]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 2,201 · 2,328 GeoNames 2,171 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
304[5]
Postal code
26431[4]
More facts +6
Located in
Harrison County
Coordinates
🗺️ 39.394°, -80.300°
Number of households
847.0[11]
Per capita income
26550.0
Territory overlaps
Shinnston urban area
Water as percent of area
0.0
🏷️ Also known as
en Shinnston, WV en Shinnston en Shinnston, West Virginia ar شينستون es Shinnston (Virginia Occidental) fa شینستون uk Шиннстон
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
159520819
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n85308226
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Shinnston West Virginia.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
38175
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/West_Virginia/Localities/S/Shinnston/
E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
395
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
54-73636
FactGrid item ID
GDD
Freebase ID
/m/010wzw
GNIS Feature ID
1555613, 2390652
GeoNames ID
4822050
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2119956
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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
shinnston
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0443429
J9U entity ID
987007557719705171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
240037
OpenWeatherMap city ID
4822050
UN/LOCODE
USSKF
WOEID
2492861
Who's on First ID
101731607
Yale LUX ID
place/47f12ca4-8a78-4603-8361-a2718bee4bc9

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🔗 Connections
Country 1
United States
FactGrid item ID 1
GDD
Instance of 1
city in the United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Harrison County
← Place of publication 1
The Shinnston News and Harrison County Journal
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Summary

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

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . 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] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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