West Virginia
Ohio Valley
Wood County

Parkersburg

Parkersburg is a city of 30,000 people in . It was known as "Newport" when it was founded, later to be renamed Parkersburg in 1810. The city sits where the Little Kanawha River meets the Ohio river; the town of Belpre lies just across the river in .
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  • Type: City with 31,800 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Wood County, West Virginia
  • Also known as: “Neals Landing”, “Neals Station”, “Newport”, “Parkersburg, West Virginia”, “Parkersburg, WV”, “Parkersburgh”, “Stokelyville”, and “The Point”
  • Postal codes: 26101-26104 and 26106

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Francis Xavier Church and Avery Street Historic District.

Church
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is a historic church at 532 Market Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia. This church was built in 1869 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Park
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, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, . It is to the east of the and south of the Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District.

Protected area
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"Oakland," also known as the James M. Stephenson House, is a home located in Parkersburg, . Although a slaveholder and sympathizing with the Confederacy, Stephenson was also married to the sister of Unionist Arthur Boreman, and allowed then Union Army Col.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belpre and Lauckport.

Town
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is a city in , United States, along the Ohio River across from Parkersburg, West Virginia. The population was 6,728 at the 2020 census.

Neighborhood
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. The community most likely derives its name from the local Lauck family.

Neighborhood
is an unincorporated community in , , United States.

Parkersburg

Latitude
39.2667° or 39° 16′ 0″ north
Longitude
-81.5621° or 81° 33′ 44″ west
Population
31,800
Elevation
614 feet (187 metres)
IATA airport code
PKB
Open location code
86FW7C8Q+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4319847438
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4817641
Wiki­data ID
Q329485
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Parkersburg” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باركرسبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Parkersburg”
  • Armenian: “Պարկերսբուրգ”
  • Asturian: “Parkersburg West Virginia”
  • Asturian: “Parkersburg, Virginia Occidental”
  • Asturian: “Parkersburg”
  • Basque: “Parkersburg”
  • Bengali: “পার্কেসবার্গ”
  • Breton: “Parkersburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Паркърсбърг”
  • Burmese: “ပါကာဘာ့ဂ်၊ အနောက်ဗာဂျီးနီးယား”
  • Catalan: “Parkersburg”
  • Cebuano: “Parkersburg”
  • Chechen: “Паркерсбург (Малхбузен Верджиния)”
  • Chechen: “Паркерсбург”
  • Chinese: “Parkersburg”
  • Chinese: “帕克斯伯格市”
  • Chinese: “帕克斯堡”
  • Cornish: “Parkersburg, Virjynni West”
  • Czech: “Parkersburg”
  • Dagbani: “Parkersburg”
  • Danish: “Parkersburg”
  • Dutch: “Parkersburg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باركرسبورج”
  • Finnish: “Parkersburg”
  • French: “Parkersburg”
  • Galician: “Parkersburg, Virxinia Occidental”
  • Galician: “Parkersburg”
  • German: “Parkersburg”
  • Gilaki: “پارکرزبرگ (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “پارکرزبرگ”
  • Greek: “Πάρκερσμπουργκ”
  • Gujarati: “પાર્કર્સબર્ગ”
  • Haitian: “Parkersburg”
  • Hebrew: “פרקרסבורג”
  • Hindi: “पार्कर्सबर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Parkersburg”
  • Indonesian: “Parkersburg”
  • Interlingua: “Parkersburg”
  • Irish: “Parkersburg”
  • Italian: “Parkersburg”
  • Japanese: “パーカーズバーグ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾರ್ಕರ್ಸ್ಬರ್ಗ್”
  • Korean: “파커스버그”
  • Korean: “파커즈버그”
  • Ladin: “Parkersburg”
  • Latvian: “Parkersburga”
  • Lithuanian: “Parkersburgas”
  • Malagasy: “Parkersburg, West Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Parkersburg”
  • Malay: “Parkersburg”
  • Marathi: “पार्करबर्ग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Parkersburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Parkersburg”
  • Norwegian: “Parkersburg”
  • Persian: “پارکرزبرگ، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “پارکرزبرگ”
  • Polish: “Parkersburg”
  • Portuguese: “Parkersburg”
  • Romanian: “Parkersburg, Virginia de Vest”
  • Romanian: “Parkersburg, West Virginia”
  • Romanian: “Parkersburg”
  • Russian: “Паркерсберг”
  • Serbian: “Паркерсбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Parkersburg, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Parkersburg”
  • Silesian: “Parkersburg”
  • Sinhala: “පාකස්බර්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Parkersburg”
  • Slovenian: “Parkersburg”
  • Spanish: “Parkersburg (Virginia Occidental)”
  • Spanish: “Parkersburg”
  • Swedish: “Parkersburg, West Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Parkersburg”
  • Talysh: “Parkersberq”
  • Talysh: “Parkersburg”
  • Tamil: “பரகேரஸ்புர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Паркерсбург (Көнбатыш Верджиния)”
  • Tatar: “Паркерсбург”
  • Telugu: “పర్కెర్స్ బర్గ్”
  • Thai: “ปาร์คเกอเบิก”
  • Turkish: “Parkersburg, Batı Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Parkersburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Паркерсбург”
  • Urdu: “پارکرزبرگ، مغربی ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “پارکرزبرگ”
  • Venetian: “Parkersburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Parkersburg, Tây Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Parkersburg, West Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Parkersburg”
  • Volapük: “Parkersburg, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Parkersburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Parkersburg, West Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Parkersburg”
  • Welsh: “Parkersburg, Gorllewin Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Parkersburg”

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