US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, West Virginia

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US Black Heritage Project; USBH 1880 Project

Goal: To create a profile for every Black American enumerated on the 1880 US Federal Census in West Virginia.

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Total Population of West Virginia in 1880: 618,457

Total Black Population of West Virginia in 1880: 25,886

Counties in 1880	Total Pop.	Black Pop.	Spreadsheet	Status/Checked
Barbour	11,870	457
Berkeley	17,380	1928
Boone	5,824	189
Braxton	9,787	104
Brooke	6,013	85	Spreadsheet 2
Cabell	13,744	902	Spreadsheet 1
Calhoun	6,072	74	Spreadsheet 2
Clay	3,460	...	...	...
Doddridge	10,552	54	Spreadsheet 2
Fayette	11,560	1,122
Gilmer	7,108	47	Spreadsheet 2
Grant	5,542	503
Greenbrier	15,060	1,981	Spreadsheet 1
Hampshire	10,366	652
Hancock	4,882	24	Spreadsheet 2
Hardy	6,794	752	Spreadsheet 1
Harrison	20,181	889
Jackson	16,312	103
Jefferson	15,005	4,045
Kanawha	32,466	2,870	Spreadsheet #1
Lewis	13,269	323
Lincoln	8,739	52	Spreadsheet 2
Logan	7,329	109
McDowell	3,074	3	Spreadsheet 2
Marion	17,198	155
Marshall	18,840	223
Mason	22,293	859
Mercer	7,467	366
Mineral	8,630	489
Monongalia	14,985	317
Monroe	11,501	1,129
Morgan	5,777	197
Nicholas	7,223	58	Spreadsheet 2
Ohio	37,457	870
Pendleton	8,022	99	Spreadsheet 2
Pleasants	6,256	26
Pocahontas	5,591	334
Preston	19,091	206
Putnam	11,375	355	Spreadsheet 1
Raleigh	7,367	71	Spreadsheet 2
Randolph	8,102	112
Ritchie	13,474	64	Spreadsheet 2
Roane	12,184	39	Spreadsheet 2
Summers	9,033	771
Taylor	11,455	399
Tucker	3,151	26	Spreadsheet 2
Tyler	11,073	6	Spreadsheet 2
Upshur	10,249	201
Wayne	14,739	220
Webster	3,207	2	...[1]
Wetzel	13,896	22	Spreadsheet 2
Wirt	7,104	13	Spreadsheet 1	Done/
Wood	25,006	925
Wyoming	4,322	64	Spreadsheet 2

Thank you to our spreadsheet creation helpers for West Virginia

• Donna Baumann
• M Cole
• Denise Nawa'a

Sources

1. ↑ no African American residents found in Webster County in searches on FamilySearch and Ancestry

• "1880 Census: Volume 1. Statistics of the Population of the United States;" Table V: Population, by Race and by Counties: 1880, 1870, 1860; pages 413-414, West Virginia; image copy, United States Census Bureau, https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-01-population/1880_v1-13.pdf : accessed 19 Jan 2024.