Ancestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records

Population in 1980 was 8,536, in 1990 was 7,494. Over one thousand people in ten years went elsewhere. Looking at some other West Virginia towns in the same period shows the same, or even worse decline. West Virginia has 27 towns and cities with population over 5,000. Every town or city but two lost population between 1980 and 1990. ................
................