Barbour
Barbour County is a county in north central West Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 15,465. The county seat is Philippi, which was chartered in 1844.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 16,600 residents
- Description: county in West Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Barbour County”, “Barbour County, Virginia”, “Barbour County, West Virginia”, and “Barbour County, WV”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Philippi Historic District and Philip Barbour High School.
Philippi Historic District
Park
Photo: Valerius Tygart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Philippi Historic District is national historic district located at Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, USA. It encompasses 113 contributing buildings and one contributing structure dating from the mid-19th century through early 20th century.
Philip Barbour High School
School building
Philip Barbour High School is the sole public high school serving Barbour County, West Virginia. The school is named, as is the county it serves, for Philip P.
Barbour County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Valerius Tygart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Barbour County Courthouse in Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, USA is a monumental public building constructed between 1903 and 1905 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Philippi and Calhoun.
Philippi
Town
Photo: Valerius Tygart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Philippi is a city in and the county seat of Barbour County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. The population was 2,929 at the 2020 census.
Calhoun
Hamlet
Calhoun is an unincorporated community in Barbour County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Independence
Hamlet
Independence is an unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States. Independence is located south of Philippi on County Route 30 near the Tygart Valley River. The community is centered on and named for the Independence School there.
Barbour
- Categories: county of West Virginia, county of Virginia, and locality
- Location: West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.1218° or 39° 7′ 19″ northLongitude
-80.0136° or 80° 0′ 49″ westPopulation
16,600Elevation
1,929 feet (588 metres)Open location code
86FX4XCP+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 317006295OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
4797875Wikidata ID
Q493599
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Barbour” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Barbour County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بربور”
- Armenian: “Բարբուր շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Barbour”
- Basque: “Barbour konderria”
- Bavarian: “Barbour County, West Virginia”
- Bavarian: “Barbour County”
- Bishnupriya: “বারবৌর কাউন্টি, ৱেস্ট ভার্জিনিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “বারবৌর কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Барбър”
- Catalan: “comtat de Barbour”
- Cebuano: “Barbour County”
- Chechen: “Барбур”
- Chinese: “Barbour Kūn”
- Chinese: “巴伯县”
- Chinese: “巴伯縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Barbour, Virjynni West”
- Cornish: “Konteth Barbour”
- Czech: “Barbour County”
- Dutch: “Barbour County”
- Esperanto: “Barbour County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Barbour”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Barbour”
- Estonian: “Barbouri maakond”
- Finnish: “Barbourin piirikunta”
- French: “Comte de Barbour”
- French: “comté de Barbour”
- French: “Comté de Barbour”
- Galician: “Condado de Barbour”
- Georgian: “ბარბურის ოლქი”
- German: “Barbour County”
- Gilaki: “باربر ٚ شأرستان (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “باربر ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Μπάρμπερ”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Μπάρμπερ”
- Hungarian: “Barbour megye”
- Irish: “Contae Barbour”
- Italian: “contea di Barbour”
- Italian: “Contea di Barbour”
- Japanese: “バーバー郡”
- Korean: “바버군”
- Low German: “Barbour County”
- Mazanderani: “باربر شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Barbour Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Barbour Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbour County i Vest-Virginia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbour County”
- Norwegian: “Barbour County”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bærborscīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bærborscīre on Westfǣmlande”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Barbourscīr”
- Pennsylvania German: “Barbour Kaundi, Wescht Wirschini”
- Pennsylvania German: “Barbour Kaundi”
- Persian: “شهرستان باربر، ویرجینیای غربی”
- Persian: “شهرستان باربر”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Barbour”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Barbour”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Barbour, Virginia de Vest”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Barbour”
- Russian: “Барбор”
- Russian: “Барбур”
- Sardinian: “contea de Barbour”
- Serbian: “Barbour County”
- Serbian: “Округ Барбор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Barbour County, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Barbour County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Barbour (Virginia Occidental)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Barbour”
- Swedish: “Barbour County, West Virginia”
- Swedish: “Barbour County”
- Tatar: “Барбур (округ, Көнбатыш Вирджиния)”
- Tatar: “Барбур”
- Turkish: “Barbour County, Batı Virginia”
- Turkish: “Barbour County, W.Va.”
- Turkish: “Barbour County, WV”
- Turkish: “Barbour County”
- Turkish: “Barbour ilçesi, Batı Virginia”
- Turkish: “Barbour ilçesi, W.Va.”
- Turkish: “Barbour ilçesi, WV”
- Turkish: “Barbour ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Барбур”
- Urdu: “باربور کاؤنٹی، مغربی ورجینیا”
- Urdu: “باربور کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Barbour”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Barbour, Tây Virginia”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Barbour, West Virginia”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Barbour”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Barbour, West Virginia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Barbour”
- Welsh: “Barbour County, Gorllewin Virginia”
- Welsh: “Barbour County”
- Western Panjabi: “باربور کاؤنٹی”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Silent Grove Baptist Church and Central Barbour Public Service District.
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