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Monongalia and County
At this time the region was still a part of Monongalia County, Virginia.
* Monongalia County and Marion County ( east )
* Monongalia County ( north )
It was formed from Monongalia County in 1818 and named for Virginia Governor James Patton Preston.
Monongalia County is in magenta.
Monongalia County takes its name from the Monongahela River.
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.
Monongalia County 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.
In 1776 part of western Augusta County, an area also known as the District of West Augusta, became Monongalia County, Ohio County, and Yohogania County ( abolished in 1786 ).
* Monongalia County, West Virginia ( south )
* Monongalia County, West Virginia ( southwest )
The first white settlement in present-day Barbour County was established about 3 miles downriver from the future site of Philippi in 1780, at which time the area was still part of western Virginia and included within Monongalia County.
Thomas Nutter had received a land grant for 1, 400 acres ( 5. 7 km² ) of land along Elk Creek in what was then Monongalia County.
* Established in 1820 as Middletown, then in Monongalia County, it was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1843 as Fairmont, a contraction of " Fair Mountain ".
Baker apparently bought out his partners and, in turn, sold the parcel to James Hanway, a surveyor living in Monongalia County, who parceled the land and began selling it.
Blacksville is a town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA.

Monongalia and is
Brookhaven is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
Cassville is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
Cheat Lake is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
Granville is a town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
Star City is a small town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, in the United States.
Westover is a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
The word Monongalia is a Latinized version of the Native American word Monongahela, which means " falling banks ", in reference to the geological instability of the river's banks.
That District consisted of Berkeley County, Frederick County, Hampshire County, Hardy County, Harrison County, Monongalia County, Ohio County and Randolph County, which cover the area which is now the eastern part of West Virginia and the northernmost county of Virginia, all within Virginia's 1st congressional district, which also included Shenandoah County.
Monongalia County is a former county in the U. S. state of Minnesota.
Nicholas Decker, the first settler to establish a settlement in the vicinity of what is now Morgantown, on 29 April 1781, surveyed for Zackquill Morgan assignee of Isaac Lemasters, of land in Monongalia County, on Deckers Creek and the Monongahela River, including his settlement thereon in the year 1772, agreeable to and in part of a certificate for from the commissioners of adjusting claims to unpatented lands in the county of Monongalia — James Chew, assisted Mr. James Madison, surveyor.
A courthouse record says: " John Madison assee of Nicholas Decker is intitled to Four Hundred acres of land in Monongalia County on the Monona River to include his settlement made thereon in the year 1766 and prior to any settlement made near the same.
Much of this last stretch of US 119 heading towards Uniontown, Pennsylvania is already bypassed by traffic using I-68, Monongalia County Route 857 and PA 857.
Roman W. Prezioso, Jr. is a West Virginia state senator representing the 13th senatorial district which comprises parts of Marion and Monongalia counties.
Monongalia County encompassed much of what is now north-central West Virginia, and parts of what are now Washington, Greene and Fayette Counties in Pennsylvania.
Morgantown Municipal Airport is a city owned, public use airport located three nautical miles ( 4 mi, 6 km ) east of the central business district of Morgantown, a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

Monongalia and county
Morgantown was established by an act reading as follows: Be it enacted by the General Assembly that of land, the property of Zackquill Morgan, lying in the county of Monongalia shall be — laid out in lots of half an acre each, with convenient streets which shall be established as a town by the name of " Morgans Town ".

Monongalia and .
Map of Ohio, Monongalia, & Yohogania Counties circa 1776.
The name Monongalia may be a misspelling of Monongahela.
Mountaineer Council services the counties of Monongalia, Marion, Preston, and Taylor.

Monongalia and state
On June 20, 1863, both Brooke and Hancock, as well as Ohio and Monongalia ( and the counties since formed from Ohio and Monongalia ) became part of the new state of West Virginia.
The remainder of the state was redistricted, reflecting the continuing shift of the state's population to the Eastern Panhandle and to Monongalia County, however no incumbents were placed in districts where they will have to run against one another, except for the Kanawha situation.
The Second District as originally formed in 1863 included Taylor, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker, Barbour, Upshur, Webster, Pocahontas, Randolph, Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, and Morgan counties ( Jefferson county's status in the state was still in dispute, and Grant and Mineral counties were still part of other counties, but the modern territory of all was also included ).

Monongalia and West
Category: Populated places in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Category: Populated places in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Category: Populated places in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Category: Populated places in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Category: Populated places in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Category: Populated places in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Category: Populated places in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Monongalia County and the town of Monongah in West Virginia, and Monongahela in Pennsylvania are named after the river.
* Kimberly, Monongalia County, West Virginia, unincorporated community
* Old Morgantown Post Office, part of the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia, NRHP-listed
* Monongalia County, West Virginia

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