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Wheeling (W. Va.)

LC control no.n 81062621
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingWheeling (W. Va.)
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Geographic subdivision usageWest Virginia--Wheeling
Variant(s)City of Wheeling (W. Va.)
Weeling (W. Va.)
Wheeling (Va.)
Wheeling
See alsoZanesburg (Va.)
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Beginning date1806
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedWest Virginia
Found inPublic Administration Service. Organization and administration ... 1938.
GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 40°03ʹ50ʺN 080°43ʹ15ʺW)
Britannica academic, viewed on April 8, 2019: under Wheeling (city in Ohio County, West Virginia); Fort Fincastle was build there in 1774; renamed Fort Henry in 1776; in 1795 the site was chartered as a town called Zanesburg; in 1806 it was renamed Wheeling)
Wikipedia, August 9, 2019 (Wheeling, West Virginia; city in Ohio and Marshall counties; located almost entirely in Ohio County, of which it is the county seat; 40°4ʹ13ʺN 80°41ʹ55ʺW)
Geographic area coden-us-wv