Upshur County, West Virginia

Founding: 1851
Parent counties: Barbour, Lewis, and Randolph

Namesake: Abel Upshur, Virginia politician
Seat: Buckhannon (1851–)

Land area: 355 square miles

Population (2020): 23,816

Population (historic): 7,292 (1860); 10,249 (1880); 14,696 (1900); 17,944 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1950; 1960–1980; 1990–2010

Subdivisions: One city

National Register listings: Seven

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,646 (14.6%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 44.8%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 5.1%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 18.4%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 13%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $880
Average outbuilding value (1930): $377
Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.4 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 2,148
Average farm size (1920): 58.9 acres
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Buckhannon

Namesake: The Buckhannon River

Founding: 1804 (post office); 1816 (platting); 1852 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 5,299

Population (historic): 427 (1860); 761 (1880); 1,589 (1900); 4,374 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1970
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 695 (29.6%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. House (c. 1890). 3155 Brushy Creek Road. Italianate.
2. *John Dean Log House (c. 1828). Evun Breth Acres, north of US Highway 48. Razed.
3. *Joseph Reger Farm (1872). 4556 Hacker's Creek Road.