Charles Town
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- Type: Town with 5,260 residents
- Description: city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Charles Town, West Virginia”, “Charles Town, WV”, and “Charlestown”
- Postal code: 25414
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jefferson County Courthouse and Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races.
Jefferson County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Jefferson County Courthouse is a historic building in Charles Town, West Virginia, USA. The building is historically notable as the site of two trials for treason: that of John Brown in 1859, and those of unionizing coal miners from…
Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races
Casino
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Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races is a casino, hotel and Thoroughbred horse racing complex located in Charles Town, West Virginia, 60 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ranson and Mechanicstown.
Ranson
Village
Ranson is a city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 5,433 at the 2020 census. It is part of the northwestern fringes of the Washington metropolitan area.
Mechanicstown
Hamlet
Mechanicstown is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. Mechanicstown lies on West Virginia Route 115 at its intersection with County Route 25 and County Route 9/3. Mechanicstown is situated 2½ miles southeast of Charles Town.
Charles Town
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Jefferson, Potomac Highlands, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.2892° or 39° 17′ 21″ northLongitude
-77.8596° or 77° 51′ 35″ westPopulation
5,260Elevation
512 feet (156 metres)United Nations Location Code
US CTSOpen location code
87F474QR+M5OpenStreetMap ID
node 2681671280OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Charles Town” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Charles Town”
- Arabic: “تشارلز تاون”
- Aragonese: “Charles Town”
- Arpitan: “Charles Town”
- Asturian: “Charles Town”
- Basque: “Charles Town”
- Bavarian: “Charles Town”
- Belarusian: “Чарльз-Таўн”
- Breton: “Charles Town”
- Bulgarian: “Чарлз Таун”
- Catalan: “Charles Town”
- Cebuano: “Charles Town”
- Chechen: “Чарлз-Таун (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
- Chechen: “Чарлз-Таун”
- Chinese: “Charles Town”
- Chinese: “查尔斯镇”
- Corsican: “Charles Town”
- Croatian: “Charles Town”
- Czech: “Charles Town”
- Dagbani: “Charles Town”
- Danish: “Charles Town”
- Dutch: “Charles Town”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشارلز تاون”
- Esperanto: “Charles Town”
- Estonian: “Charles Town”
- Finnish: “Charles Town”
- French: “Charles Town”
- Friulian: “Charles Town”
- Galician: “Charles Town”
- German: “Charles Town”
- Gilaki: “چارلز تاؤن (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “چارلز تاؤن”
- Hungarian: “Charles Town”
- Icelandic: “Charles Town”
- Ido: “Charles Town”
- Indonesian: “Charles Town”
- Interlingua: “Charles Town”
- Interlingue: “Charles Town”
- Irish: “Charles Town”
- Italian: “Charles Town”
- Japanese: “チャールズ・タウン (ウェストバージニア州)”
- Japanese: “チャールズ・タウン”
- Japanese: “チャールズタウン”
- Kongo: “Charles Town”
- Korean: “찰스 타운”
- Korean: “찰스타운”
- Ladin: “Charles Town”
- Ligurian: “Charles Town”
- Limburgan: “Charles Town”
- Lithuanian: “Čarls Taunas”
- Low German: “Charles Town”
- Luxembourgish: “Charles Town”
- Malagasy: “Charles Town, West Virginia”
- Malagasy: “Charles Town”
- Malay: “Charles Town”
- Marathi: “चार्ल्स टाउन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Charles Town”
- Minangkabau: “Charles Town”
- Narom: “Charles Town”
- Neapolitan: “Charles Town”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Charles Town”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Charles Town”
- Norwegian: “Charles Town”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Charles Town”
- Persian: “چارلز تاون، ویرجینیای غربی”
- Persian: “چارلز تاون”
- Picard: “Charles Town”
- Piemontese: “Charles Town”
- Polish: “Charles Town”
- Portuguese: “Charles Town”
- Romanian: “Charles Town”
- Romansh: “Charles Town”
- Russian: “Чарльз-Таун”
- Sardinian: “Charles Town”
- Scots: “Charles Town”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Charles Town”
- Serbian: “Charles Town”
- Serbian: “Чарлс Таун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Charles Town, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Charles Town”
- Sicilian: “Charles Town”
- Slovak: “Charles Town”
- Slovenian: “Charles Town”
- Spanish: “Charles Town (Virginia Occidental)”
- Spanish: “Charles Town”
- Swahili: “Charles Town”
- Swedish: “Charles Town, West Virginia”
- Swedish: “Charles Town”
- Swiss German: “Charles Town”
- Tatar: “Чарлз-Таун (Көнбатыш Вирджиния)”
- Tatar: “Чарлз-Таун”
- Ukrainian: “Чарлз-Тавн”
- Ukrainian: “Чарлз-Таун”
- Urdu: “چارلس ٹاؤن، مغربی ورجینیا”
- Urdu: “چارلس ٹاؤن”
- Venetian: “Charles Town”
- Vietnamese: “Charles Town”
- Vlaams: “Charles Town”
- Volapük: “Charles Town”
- Walloon: “Charles Town”
- Welsh: “Charles Town, Gorllewin Virginia”
- Welsh: “Charles Town”
- Wolof: “Charles Town”
- Zulu: “Charles Town”
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