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Regions of Appalachia
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Counties of Appalachia
Five Regions of Appalachia |
The following tables show the 423 counties over 13 states that are considered part of Appalachia today.[1]
The Appalachia Project is organized into Regional Teams. Appalachia has five regions, which are defined by counties, rather than states, so a project member might belong to more than one Regional Team, even if focusing on only one state. Click the Team links below to go to the Team page; the state links go to the table of counties on this page.
- Regional Teams
- Northern Appalachia Team (Team category)
Maryland
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia (Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio)[2] - North Central Appalachia Team (Team category)
Ohio
West Virginia - Central Appalachia Team (Team category)
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia (Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wayne, Wyoming)[2][3] - South Central Appalachia Team (Team category)
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia - Southern Appalachia Team (Team category)
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
- Appalachia Counties by State
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- West Virginia (Virginia -> WV in 1863)
- Counties followed by (d) represent counties that are now defunct. - and need research to determine if they should be listed. The additional "defunct" counties are from the tables created by WikiTree's United States Project (here).
Alabama
- Of Alabama's 67 counties,[4] 37 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Alabama Appalachians
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37[4] out of 67[1] Alabama County Categories, +9 defunct counties[5] Baker (d)[5] Benton (d)[5] Bibb Baine (d)[5] Blount Cahawba (d)[5] Calhoun Chambers Cherokee Chilton Clay Cleburne Colbert Coosa Cotaco (d)[5] Cullman DeKalb Decatur (d)[5] Elk (d)[5] Elmore Etowah Fayette Franklin Hale Jackson Jefferson Jones (d)[5] Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Limestone Macon Madison Marion Marshall Morgan Pickens Randolph Sanford (d)[5] Shelby St. Clair Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa Walker Winston
Georgia
- Of Georgia's 159 counties,[6] 37 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Georgia Appalachians
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37[1] out of 159[6] Georgia County Categories (+1 historic county) Banks Barrow Bartow Carroll Cass (1832-1861)[7] Catoosa Chattooga Cherokee Dade Dawson Douglas Elbert Fannin Floyd Forsyth Franklin Gilmer Gordon Gwinnett Habersham Hall Haralson Hart Heard Jackson Lumpkin Madison Murray Paulding Pickens Polk Rabun Stephens Towns Union Walker White Whitfield
Kentucky
- Of Kentucky's 120 counties,[8] 54 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Kentucky Appalachians
- Virginia Appalachians (pre-Kentucky, see details here)
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54[1] out of 120[8] Kentucky County Categories Adair Bath Bell Boyd Breathitt Carter Casey Clark Clay Clinton Cumberland Edmonson Elliott Estill Fleming Floyd Garrard Green Greenup Harlan Hart Jackson Johnson Knott Knox Laurel Lawrence Lee Leslie Letcher Lewis Lincoln Madison Magoffin Martin McCreary Menifee Metcalfe Monroe Montgomery Morgan Nicholas Owsley Perry Pike Powell Pulaski Robertson Rockcastle Rowan Russell Wayne Whitley Wolfe
Maryland
- Of Maryland's 24 counties,[9] 3 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Maryland Appalachians
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3[1] out of 24[9] Maryland County Categories Allegany Garrett Washington
Mississippi
- Of Mississippi's 82 counties,[10] 24 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Mississippi Appalachians
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24[1] out of 82[10] Mississippi County Categories Alcorn Benton Calhoun Chickasaw Choctaw Clay Itawamba Kemper Lee Lowndes Marshall Monroe Montgomery Noxubee Oktibbeha Panola Pontotoc Prentiss Tippah Tishomingo Union Webster Winston Yalobusha
New York
- Of New York's 62 counties,[11] 14 are in Appalachia.[1]
- New York Appalachians
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14[1] of 62[11] New York County Categories Allegany Broome Cattaraugus Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Cortland Delaware Otsego Schoharie Schuyler Steuben Tioga Tompkins
North Carolina
- Of North Carolina's 100 counties,[12] 31 are in Appalachia.[1]
- North Carolina Appalachians (people profiles)
- Workspace for Appalachia Project - North Carolina (includes links to existing space pages)
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31[1] out of 100[12] North Carolina County Categories Alexander Alleghany Ashe Avery Buncombe Burke Caldwell Catawba Cherokee Clay Cleveland Davie Forsyth Graham Haywood Henderson Jackson Macon Madison McDowell Mitchell Polk Rutherford Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tryon Watauga Wilkes Yadkin Yancey
Ohio
- Of Ohio's 88 counties,[13] 32 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Ohio Appalachians
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32[1] out of 88[13] Ohio County Categories Adams Ashtabula Athens Belmont Brown Carroll Clermont Columbiana Coshocton Gallia Guernsey Harrison Highland Hocking Holmes Jackson Jefferson Lawrence Mahoning Meigs Monroe Morgan Muskingum Noble Perry Pike Ross Scioto Trumbull Tuscarawas Vinton Washington
Pennsylvania
- Of Pennsylvania's 67 counties,[14] 52 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Pennsylvania Appalachians
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South Carolina
- Of South Carolina's 46 counties,[15] 7 are in Appalachia.[1]
- South Carolina Appalachians
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7[1] out of 46[15] South Carolina County Categories, +7 defunct counties[5] Anderson Cherokee Granville (d)[5] Greenville Lewisburg (d)[5] Liberty (d)[5] Oconee Orange (d)[5] Pickens Salem (d)[5] Spartanburg Union Winton (d)[5] Winyah (d)[5]
Tennessee
- Of Tennessee's 95 counties,[16] 52 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Tennessee Appalachians
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52[1] out of 95[16] Tennessee County Categories (+1 historic county) Anderson Bledsoe Blount Bradley Campbell Cannon Carter Claiborne Clay Cocke Coffee Cumberland DeKalb Fentress Franklin Grainger Greene Grundy Hamblen Hamilton Hancock Hawkins Jackson James
(1871-1919)Jefferson Johnson Knox Lawrence Lewis Loudon Macon Marion McMinn Meigs Monroe Morgan Overton Pickett Polk Putnam Rhea Roane Scott Sequatchie Sevier Smith Sullivan Unicoi Union Van Buren Warren Washington White
Virginia
- Of Virginia's 133 counties,[17] 25 are in Appalachia.[1]
- Virginia Appalachians[18]
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25[1] out of 133[17] Virginia County Categories Alleghany Bath Bland Botetourt Buchanan Carroll Craig Dickenson Floyd Giles Grayson Henry Highland Lee Montgomery Patrick Pulaski Rockbridge Russell Scott Smyth Tazewell Washington Wise Wythe
8 Virginia Independent City Categories[1][19] Bristol, Virginia Buena Vista, Virginia Covington, Virginia Galax, Virginia Lexington, Virginia Martinsville, Virginia Norton, Virginia Radford, Virginia
West Virginia
- Of West Virginia's 55 counties, all are in Appalachia.[1]
- West Virginia Appalachians and
- Virginia Appalachians[18] (in the area that is now West Virginia when it was still Virginia, pre-1863)
- On 20 June 1863, 50 Virginia counties were admitted to the Union as West Virginia. Category pages for those counties - both pre- and post-secession - are listed below.[20] Today, West Virginia has 55 counties.[1] The categories for the additional five counties are in the following table, followed by the paired post-1776 Virginia & West Virginia (post-1863) categories.
West Virginia County Categories
(Five New Counties Created after 1863)Grant Lincoln Mineral Mingo Summers
County Categories - Paired VA & WV
(Virginia post-1776 - pre-1863 & West Virginia post-1863)
Va.
Barbour
Berkeley
Boone
Braxton
Brooke
Cabell
Calhoun
Clay
Doddridge
Fayette
Gilmer
Greenbrier
Hampshire
Hancock
Hardy
Harrison
Jackson
Jefferson
Kanawha
Lewis
Logan
Marion
Marshall
Mason
McDowell
- Footnotes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 As listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (here) as of 30 June 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wikipedia's article on West Virginia has an 1861 map of the counties that "Voted on Statehood for West Virginia" (accessed 1 July 2022).
- ↑ In 1861, Lincoln and Mingo counties did not exist. Lincoln County was created from Cabell County and Mingo County was created from Logan County. (Compare the 1861 map with the map of regions on this page.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mississippi Counties by Population, accessed 25 December 2022.
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 The county no longers exists. Research is needed to determine whether it was in Appalachia or not.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Georgia Counties by Population, accessed 23 December 2022.
- ↑ Cass County, created in 1832, was renamed in 1861 (Bartow County).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Kentucky Counties by Population, accessed 25 December 2022.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Maryland Counties by Population, accessed 25 December 2022.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Mississippi Counties by Population, accessed 24 December 2022.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Wikipedia: List of counties in New York, accessed 25 December 2022.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 NCpedia: Counties, accessed 24 December 2022.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Ohio Counties by Population, accessed 23 December 2022.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Pennsylvania Counties by Population, accessed 24 December 2022.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 South Carolina Association of Counties, accessed 25 December 2022.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Tennessee Counties by Population, accessed 23 December 2022.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Virginia Counties by Population, accessed 25 December 2022.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Note that Virginia location categories distinguish between USA and pre-USA counties. See the county categories under Category: Virginia Colony (before 4 July 1776) and Category: Virginia (for logistical purposes, such as categorization, WikiTree uses 4 July 1776 as the start date for USA). The 50 counties that became West Virginia on 20 June 1863 have Virginia county categories that should be used before that date (see the table under West Virginia above). See also the Virginia Project's County table.
- ↑ The Appalachian Regional Commission includes the independent cities with "an adjacent or surrounding county for the purposes of data analysis and grant management: Bristol (Washington County), Buena Vista (Rockbridge County), Covington (Alleghany County), Galax (Carroll County), Lexington (Rockbridge County), Martinsville (Henry County), Norton (Wise County), and Radford (Montgomery County)". ~ ARC (accessed 30 June 2022)
- ↑ From the Virginia Project's Virginia Counties and Parishes (accessed 30 June 2022).
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Just a crazy thought - could the number of total counties for each state be added to the table headings?
For example, the heading for Ohio could say "32 (of 88) Ohio County Categories."
I just think that would be useful information for viewers not currently "in the know!"
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Thanks for the reminder!
Cheers, Liz