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Locations for all populated places in West Virginia.<\/SPAN><\/P>

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Places were downloaded from the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line Shapefiles. The WV GIS Technical Center converted the places from polygon to point data and added population and demographic attributes from the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/SPAN><\/P>

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Total population is stored in the Population field. Earlier versions stored it in a field named for the Census vintage (pop20). The field was renamed so that this layer always carries the newest Census data under the same field name.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>", "summary": "A point coverage of all populated places located in West Virginia, based on the 2020 Census.\n\nDate Retrieved: September 2026 | Data Published: October 2026", "title": "PopulatedPlaces_Census_2020_UTM83", "tags": [ "Census", "Cities", "City", "Place", "Population", "Populated Places", "Housing Units", "Cities", "City", "Place", "Name", "Population", "Urban" ], "type": "", "typeKeywords": [], "thumbnail": "", "url": "", "minScale": 150000000, "maxScale": 5000, "spatialReference": "", "accessInformation": "U.S. Census Bureau; WVTech", "licenseInfo": "" }