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Formed in 1850 from Logan and named from an Indian word signifying
"a plain."
Land area 502 square miles; population 10,392, census of 1910;
estimated population 11,656, 1 July 1916;
estimated population 11,860, 1 July 1917;
County seat—Pineville.
Altitude 1323 feet. Population 334 in 1910; estimated population 400 July 1. 1917.
[Source: "West Virginia Blue Book" By West Virginia
Legislature, 1917]
Another interpretation of who the county is named after:
1850—Wyoming—A county now in West Virginia.
Named in memorial of the Wyoming Massacre of July 4th, 1778, many of the settlers having come from that section
of Pennsylvania.
[From "A history of colonial Virginia : the first permanent colony in America : to which is added the genealogy
of the several shires and counties and population in Virginia from the first Spanish colony to the present time,
Richmond, Va.: Williams Print. Co., 1923"]
Wyoming County Online Data
