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

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.

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