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Voters approved Marlinton as the new Pocahontas County seat
Pocahontas County is the third largest county in West Virginia, with 941.6 square miles, but among the least populous, with a 2020 population of 7,869, a nearly 10 percent decline from the 2010 census and its lowest total since 1890. Elevations ra...
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