Place:Calhoun, West Virginia, United States

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Name	Calhoun
Alt names	Calhoun	source: Getty Vocabulary Program
Type	County
Coordinates	38.833°N 81.117°W
Located in	West Virginia, United States (1863 - )
Also located in	Virginia, United States (1856 - 1863)
See also	Gilmer, West Virginia, United States	Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)

1 Timeline
2 Population History
3 History
4 Cemeteries
5 Research Tips
6 Links to Calhoun County Web Sites

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Calhoun County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,627. Its county seat is Grantsville. The county was founded in 1856 and named for South Carolina politician John C. Calhoun.

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Timeline

Date	Event	Source
1856	Birth records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1856	County formed	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1856	Court records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1856	Land records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1856	Marriage records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1856	Probate records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1860	First census	Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1860	No significant boundary changes after this year	Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1863	Effective date for move from Virginia to West Virginia	Source:Wikipedia

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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990

Census Year	Population
1860	2,502
1870	2,939
1880	6,072
1890	8,155
1900	10,266
1910	11,258
1920	10,268
1930	10,866
1940	12,455
1950	10,259
1960	7,948
1970	7,046
1980	8,250
1990	7,885

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History

Transcription of Hardesty's Calhoun County History as typed by Linda Fluharty Cunningham: http://www.wvgenweb.org/calhoun/hardhis.htm

This book was also transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer and published by the Calhoun County Chronicle Newspaper.

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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States

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Research Tips

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Links to Calhoun County Web Sites

West Virginia Vital Records Search Online http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx This is not an index; it is the actual images online. This is not complete but the site is working to add more counties and images as they have time. Informative article about this Vital Research Records Project http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/vrrhandout.html

Calhoun County West Virginia GenWeb: http://www.wvgenweb.org/calhoun/index.htm. This excellent site has many transcribed vital records; census, marriages, births, obits, bios etc.

Source:Weaver, Bob. Hur Herald, http://www.hurherald.com/ an online newspaper published from a wide spot in the road called Hur. This site has many searchable photos, obits, deaths, old stories transcribed from very early Calhoun Chronicle newspaper. A really neat site!--Janiejac 13:40, 19 January 2008 (EST)

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