Moving Here Data Sheet
| General Information for Upshur County |
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Approximate Populations — Buckhannon: 7,000; Upshur County: 23,000; Median age of population — 33 years. 
Climate — Mean average temperature, 52 degrees; January average temperature,High 41, Low 20; July average temperature, High 84, Low 59; Average annual rainfall, 49.98 in. Size — Upshur County: 354.86 sq. miles or 225,288 acres. Elevation — 1,432 feet above sea level at the county courthouse. Parks — Eight: Upshur County Recreation Park, Buckhannon City Park, Jawbone Run Park, Fred Brooks Park, Pringle Tree Park, Woodstreet Park, North Buckhannon River Front Park, and Audra State Park. Banks — Five: First Community Bank, Bank One, Progressive Bank, Freedom Bank and First Central Bank. Industry — chief industries are agriculture, coal mining, timber, livestock, refractories, manufactured wood products, glass and glass decorating, plastic pipe, and State Division of Highways Equipment Headquarters. Newspapers — The Record Delta, tri-weekly. The Elkins Inter-Mountain, daily. Radio stations — WBUC, WBTQ-FM, WVWC-FM, WBRB. TV station — WBUC, channel three. Hotels and motels —Budget Host Baxa Inn, Main Street Inn, Centennial, Colonial, Hampton Inn. Bed and breakfasts — Post Mansion Inn, A Governor’s Inn, Deer Park and Riverside B & B. Railroad — served by Baltimore and Ohio Chessie System. Highways — U.S. Routes 151 and 119, state Routes 4 and 20. Corridor H (U.S.Route 33), which has been renamed the Robert C. Byrd Highway, has been extended to Parsons. Airlines — The county is served by Elkins and Clarksburg airports. Airports — The Buckhannon-Upshur Airport boasts a 3,400-foot paved runway. Plans to extend the runway are underway, funded mostly by a $1,076,565 FAA grant. Amusement — Eight public parks, West Virginia Strawberry Festival (end of May),Upshur County Fair (mid-July), and two nine-hole golf courses. Education — Elementary, 9; Junior/Middle, 1; Senior High, 1; Vocational, 1; West Virginia Wesleyan College, West Virginia Canine College. Healthcare — St. Joseph’s Hospital, Physicians Office Center, Buckhannon Medical Care, Tri-County Health Clinic in Rock Cave and Little Meadow Health Clinic-Helvetia. Libraries — Charles W. Gibson Public Library on East Main Street, Annie Merner Pfieffer Library on the WVWC campus, Upshur County Public Library on Route 20 south in Tennerton, and the James Curry Library located in southern Upshur County. The county libraries contain 230,753 volumes. Incorporation — Buckhannon was established in 1816 and incorporated in 1852. The first courthouse was built in 1854. |
