Fayette County
county in West Virginia, United States
Facts
19 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- county of West Virginia, county of Virginia
- Inception
- February 28, 1831[11]
- Official website
- www.fayettecounty.wv.gov, fayettecounty.wv.gov[13][14]
- Native label
- Fayette County
Location
- Country
- United States[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 38.030°, -81.090°[12]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- West Virginia, Virginia[2]
- Shares border with
- Nicholas County, Greenbrier County, Summers County, Raleigh County, Kanawha County[5][6][7][8][9]
More facts +9
- Capital
- Fayetteville[4]
- Located in the statistical territorial entity
- Beckley metropolitan area
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C110690
- Named after
- Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette[10]
- Number of households
- +17388
- Per capita income
- +23170
- Water as percent of area
- +1
🏷️ Also known as
en Fayette County, West Virginia
en Fayette County, WV
en Fayette County
en Fayette County, Virginia
ar مقاطعة فاييت
el Κομητεία Φαγιέτ
es Condado de Fayette
es Condado de Fayette (Virginia Occidental)
fa شهرستان فایت
fi Fayetten piirikunta
fr Comte de Fayette
fr comté de Fayette
he מחוז פאייט
hu Fayette megye
it contea di Fayette
ja ファイエット・カウンティ
ja ファイエット郡
ko 페이엣군
pl Hrabstwo Fayette
ro Comitatul Fayette, Virginia de Vest
🔖 Identifiers · 28
- VIAF cluster ID
- 139560832
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n81018763
- GND ID
- 4601699-5
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 21156
- E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
- 2245
- FIPS 6-4 ID
- 54019
- Freebase ID
- /m/0mlrh
- GADM ID
- USA.49.10_1
- GNIS Feature ID
- 1560095
- GeoNames ID
- 4805678
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 2002261
- HASC
- US.WV.FA
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- INaturalist place ID
- 2124
- J9U entity ID
- 987007550555105171
- KnowWhereGraph entity ID
- administrativeRegion.USA.54019
- MusicBrainz area ID
- 60bdf817-f381-49ac-b2b1-e156c773326a
- OBO Gazetteer ID
- 00153279
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 1913184
- Our Campaigns container ID
- 5626
- Taxonomicon ID
- 1808335
- Topic's main category
- Category:Fayette County, West Virginia
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10039926
- UMLS CUI
- C3812209
- Who's on First ID
- 102083359
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"FayetteCounty", "WestVirginia", "UnitedStates"}]
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJx8CmyCq493YJkYvDYByd
- Yale LUX ID
- place/859f1952-4d0f-4131-926d-55e3f7d9cfa1
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
587 m
2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 37
Shares border with 5
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← Category combines topics 3
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
People born here 2
Capital 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
Named after 1
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