State Centers of Population 1880-2020: West Virginia

Year	North Latitude	West Longitude
1880¹	38° 53′ 20″	80° 37′ 47″
1890¹	38° 49′ 59″	80° 41′ 26″
1900¹	38° 48′ 07″	80° 44′ 22″
1910¹	38° 45′ 32″	80° 49′ 12″
1920¹	38° 42′ 36″	80° 52′ 55″
1930²	38° 40′ 25″	80° 55′ 27″
1940²	38° 38′ 32″	80° 56′ 56″
1950³	38° 36′ 14″	81° 00′ 51″
1960³	38° 40′ 12″	81° 01′ 00″
1970³	38° 43′ 44″	80° 58′ 42″
1980⁴	38° 43′ 13″	80° 56′ 27″
1990⁵	38° 44′ 46″	80° 52′ 41″
2000⁶	38° 46′ 02″	80° 49′ 13″
2010⁶	38° 47′ 44″	80° 43′ 53″
2020⁶	38° 49' 24"	80° 40' 17"

¹ Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1923

² Source: U.S. Census Bureau, recomputation for historical county level data which relied upon aggregate county level population data with an estimated county centroid resulting in a possible error of up to one mile.

³ Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Centers of Population for States and Counties, 1974

⁴ Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, recomputation from archived national block group/enumeration area data resulting in a possible error of up to 1,000 feet.

⁵ Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, recomputation from archived national block group data resulting in a possible error of up to 1,000 feet.

⁶ Source: U.S. Census Bureau, computation from national block-level data.