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Monongalia County, West Virginia
Monongalia County, known locally as Mon County, is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 96,189,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/54/54061.html )〕 making it the fourth-most populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is at Morgantown.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was founded in 1776.〔(West Virginia Counties ). Wvculture.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-24.〕
Monongalia County is included in the Morgantown, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the largest county in North-Central West Virginia. It is defined entirely as part of the Pittsburgh media market.
==History==
Monongalia County takes its name from the Monongahela River. The name ''Monongalia'' may be a misspelling of Monongahela. Alternatively, the conventional Latinate ending "-ia" (designating "land of..." or "country of..." — as in ''Arabia'', ''Bolivia'' or ''Columbia'') may have been added to Monongahela (i.e., "Land of the Monongahela").
Monongalia County was formed in 1776 when Virginia's remote District of West Augusta was divided into three counties: Ohio, Yohogania and Monongalia, all named for their most prominent rivers. Ohio County then encompassed most of the western region of the district bordering the Ohio River, including parts of what is now southwestern Pennsylvania. Yohogania County consisted of much of what is now southwestern Pennsylvania and the present counties of Hancock and the northern part of Brooke in West Virginia. Monongalia County also encompassed what are now the counties of Tucker, Randolph, Harrison and Barbour in north-central West Virginia, as well as parts of what are now Washington, Greene and Fayette Counties in Pennsylvania. In 1780, in his ''Notes on the State of Virginia'', Thomas Jefferson gave the militia enrollment of what was then the vast Monongalia County at 1,000 troops.
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