Moundsville
Moundsville is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 8,122 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,460 residents
- Description: city in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Elizabeth”, “Elizabeth Town”, “Elizabethtown”, “Flats of Grave Creek”, “Grave Creek”, “Grave Creek Flats”, “Mound City”, “Moundsville, West Virginia”, “Moundsville, WV”, and “Mount Elizabeth”
- Postal code: 26041
Places of Interest
Highlights include West Virginia Penitentiary and Grave Creek Mound.
West Virginia Penitentiary
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The West Virginia Penitentiary, located in Moundsville, West Virginia is now a withdrawn and retired gothic-style prison that operated from 1866 to 1995. The site is now being maintained as a tourist attraction, museum, training facility, and filming location.
Grave Creek Mound
Archaeological site
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The Grave Creek Mound in the Ohio River Valley in West Virginia is one of the largest conical-type burial mounds in the United States, now standing 62 feet high and 240 feet in diameter.
Moundsville Bridge
Bridge
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The Moundsville Bridge is a four-lane through arch bridge that connects Mead Township, Ohio and Moundsville, West Virginia across the Ohio River. The approach routes to the bridge carries Ohio State Route 872 on the Ohio side and the unsigned West Virginia Route 2 Spur on the West Virginia side.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glendale and Dilles Bottom.
Glendale
Village
Glen Dale is a city in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. It is part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. The population was 1,514 at the 2020 census.
Dilles Bottom
Hamlet
Dilles Bottom is an unincorporated community in Southeastern Mead Township, Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The community is located along the Ohio River five miles south of Shadyside, Ohio. It is the proposed site for an ethane cracker plant.
Moundsville
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Marshall, Ohio Valley, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.9204° or 39° 55′ 14″ northLongitude
-80.7432° or 80° 44′ 36″ westPopulation
9,460Elevation
696 feet (212 metres)United Nations Location Code
US MFZOpen location code
86FXW7C4+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 154122061OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Moundsville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مووندسفيل”
- Basque: “Moundsville”
- Catalan: “Moundsville”
- Cebuano: “Moundsville”
- Chechen: “Маундсвилл (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
- Chechen: “Маундсвилл”
- Chinese: “Moundsville”
- Chinese: “芒德維爾”
- Chinese: “芒茲維爾”
- Czech: “Moundsville”
- Dagbani: “Moundsville”
- Danish: “Moundsville”
- Dutch: “Moundsville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مووندسفيل”
- French: “Moundsville”
- German: “Moundsville”
- Gilaki: “مأؤندزویل (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “مأؤندزویل”
- Hungarian: “Moundsville”
- Irish: “Moundsville”
- Italian: “Moundsville”
- Japanese: “マウンズヴィル”
- Japanese: “マウンズビル”
- Korean: “마운즈빌”
- Ladin: “Moundsville”
- Malagasy: “Moundsville, West Virginia”
- Malagasy: “Moundsville”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Moundsville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moundsville”
- Norwegian: “Moundsville”
- Persian: “ماوندزویل، ویرجینیای غربی”
- Persian: “ماوندزویل”
- Polish: “Moundsville”
- Portuguese: “Moundsville”
- Russian: “Маундсвилл”
- Serbian: “Маундсвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Moundsville, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Moundsville”
- Slovak: “Moundsville”
- Slovenian: “Moundsville”
- Spanish: “Moundsville (Virginia Occidental)”
- Spanish: “Moundsville”
- Swedish: “Moundsville”
- Tatar: “Маундсвилл (Көнбатыш Вирджиния)”
- Tatar: “Маундсвилл”
- Turkish: “Moundsville, Batı Virginia”
- Turkish: “Moundsville”
- Ukrainian: “Маундсвілл”
- Vietnamese: “Moundsville, West Virginia”
- Vietnamese: “Moundsville”
- Volapük: “Moundsville, West Virginia”
- Volapük: “Moundsville”
- Welsh: “Moundsville, Gorllewin Virginia”
- Welsh: “Moundsville”
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