About Tucker County

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Tucker County is located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2000, the population was 7,321. Its county seat is Parsons¹. Tucker County was created in 1856 from a part of Randolph County, then part of Virginia. In 1871, a small part of Barbour County, West Virginia, was transferred to Tucker County.[2] The county was named after Henry St. George Tucker, Sr., a judge and Congressman from Williamsburg, Virginia.[3]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 421 square miles (1,091 kms), of which, 419 square miles (1,085 kms) of it is land and 2 square miles (6 kms) of it (0.53%) is water.

Major highways

Adjacent counties

Preston County (north)
Grant County (east)
Randolph County (south)
Barbour County (west)

State Parks

Federal Lands

Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Fernow Experimental Forest – U.S. Department of Agriculture
Dolly Sods Wilderness – U.S. Forest Service
Otter Creek Wilderness – U.S. Forest Service
Monongahela National Forest – U.S. Forest Service

National Natural Landmarks

Big Run Bog
Canaan Valley
Fisher Spring Run Bog

Citations

1. “Find a County”. National Association of Counties. http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/usamap.cfm. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
2. Tucker County WVGenWeb Page, accessed August 25, 2006.
3. West Virginia Division of Culture and History – Tucker County History web page, accessed August 25, 2006
4. “American FactFinder”. United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
5. Brooks, Maurice (1965), The Appalachians (Series: The Naturalist’s America), Illustrated by Lois Darling and Lo Brooks, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, pp 127-128.

References

Maxwell, Hu, History of Tucker County, West Virginia, from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time; with Biographical Sketches of more than Two Hundred and Fifty of the Leading Men, and a Full Appendix of Official and Electoral History; Also, an Account of the Rivers, Forests and Caves of the County, Preston Publishing Company: Kingwood, West Virginia, 1884. (Reprinted by McClain Printing Company, Parsons, W.Va., 1971 and 1993.)

[From “Wikipedia, “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_County,_West_Virginia ”, March 3, 2008.]