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Parsons, West Virginia
Parsons is a city in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. The population was 1,322 at the 2020 census. Parsons is located at the confluence of the Shavers Fork and the Black Fork, forming the head of the Cheat River.
Parsons was named for Ward Parsons, described by one source as having once owned the land on which the town was built, and by another as having been an aged wilderness pioneer in the area. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway was built into Parsons in 1888, which caused the town to boom by the 1890s. The railway was later merged into the Western Maryland Railway and provided passenger train service until the 1950s.
In the early 1890s, a dispute known as the Tucker County Seat War took place between the people in the town of Parsons and that of St. George over the location of the county seat. Although nobody was killed in the "war," the situation came to a climax when a mob of armed men from Parsons marched on St. George and took the county records by force.
The 1985 Cheat River flood caused extensive damage in Parsons. Over 90 percent of the businesses and hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed. Twenty-five years later, in 2010, several empty storefronts lined the street up to the courthouse. Bars, restaurants, clothing stores and other businesses never returned to Parsons. The floods caused an estimated $570 million in damage. More than 3,500 homes and 180 businesses were destroyed. The BF Long & Co general store had a "high water mark" more than 7'6" from the floorboards. The flood stage in the shallow riverbed was only 7 feet.
Located at Parsons and listed on the National Register of Historic Places are the Tucker County Bank Building, Tucker County Courthouse and Jail, and Western Maryland Depot.
The Cheat River is formed at Parsons by the confluence of the Shavers Fork and the Black Fork.
The city has a total area of 1.20 square miles (3.11 km2), of which 1.11 square miles (2.87 km2) is land and 0.09 square miles (0.23 km2) is water.
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Parsons has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps, although it closely borders on and resembles a humid continental climate (Dfa) especially in its snowfall total of 55.3 inches or 1.4 metres. The climate is characterised by very warm and humid summers, chilly to freezing winters, and heavy precipitation year-round.
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Parsons, West Virginia
Parsons is a city in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. The population was 1,322 at the 2020 census. Parsons is located at the confluence of the Shavers Fork and the Black Fork, forming the head of the Cheat River.
Parsons was named for Ward Parsons, described by one source as having once owned the land on which the town was built, and by another as having been an aged wilderness pioneer in the area. The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway was built into Parsons in 1888, which caused the town to boom by the 1890s. The railway was later merged into the Western Maryland Railway and provided passenger train service until the 1950s.
In the early 1890s, a dispute known as the Tucker County Seat War took place between the people in the town of Parsons and that of St. George over the location of the county seat. Although nobody was killed in the "war," the situation came to a climax when a mob of armed men from Parsons marched on St. George and took the county records by force.
The 1985 Cheat River flood caused extensive damage in Parsons. Over 90 percent of the businesses and hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed. Twenty-five years later, in 2010, several empty storefronts lined the street up to the courthouse. Bars, restaurants, clothing stores and other businesses never returned to Parsons. The floods caused an estimated $570 million in damage. More than 3,500 homes and 180 businesses were destroyed. The BF Long & Co general store had a "high water mark" more than 7'6" from the floorboards. The flood stage in the shallow riverbed was only 7 feet.
Located at Parsons and listed on the National Register of Historic Places are the Tucker County Bank Building, Tucker County Courthouse and Jail, and Western Maryland Depot.
The Cheat River is formed at Parsons by the confluence of the Shavers Fork and the Black Fork.
The city has a total area of 1.20 square miles (3.11 km2), of which 1.11 square miles (2.87 km2) is land and 0.09 square miles (0.23 km2) is water.
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Parsons has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps, although it closely borders on and resembles a humid continental climate (Dfa) especially in its snowfall total of 55.3 inches or 1.4 metres. The climate is characterised by very warm and humid summers, chilly to freezing winters, and heavy precipitation year-round.
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