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Regions of Appalachia
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Counties of Appalachia

Five Regions of Appalachia

The following tables show the 423 counties over 13 states that are considered part of Appalachia today.^[1]

The Appalachia Project is organized into Regional Teams. Appalachia has five regions, which are defined by counties, rather than states, so a project member might belong to more than one Regional Team, even if focusing on only one state. Click the Team links below to go to the Team page; the state links go to the table of counties on this page.

Regional Teams

1. Northern Appalachia Team (Team category)
   Maryland
   New York
   Ohio
   Pennsylvania
   West Virginia (Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio)^[2]
2. North Central Appalachia Team (Team category)
   Ohio
   West Virginia
3. Central Appalachia Team (Team category)
   Kentucky
   Tennessee
   Virginia
   West Virginia (Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wayne, Wyoming)^[2][3]
4. South Central Appalachia Team (Team category)
   North Carolina
   Tennessee
   Virginia
5. Southern Appalachia Team (Team category)
   Alabama
   Georgia
   Mississippi
   South Carolina

Appalachia Counties by State

1. Alabama
2. Georgia
3. Kentucky
4. Maryland
5. Mississippi
6. New York
7. North Carolina
8. Ohio
9. Pennsylvania
10. South Carolina
11. Tennessee
12. Virginia
13. West Virginia (Virginia -> WV in 1863)

Counties followed by (d) represent counties that are now defunct. - and need research to determine if they should be listed. The additional "defunct" counties are from the tables created by WikiTree's United States Project (here).

Alabama

Of Alabama's 67 counties,^[4] 37 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Alabama Appalachians

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37[4] out of 67[1] Alabama County Categories, +9 defunct counties[5]
Baker (d)[5]	Benton (d)[5]	Bibb	Baine (d)[5]	Blount	Cahawba (d)[5]
Calhoun	Chambers	Cherokee	Chilton	Clay	Cleburne
Colbert	Coosa	Cotaco (d)[5]	Cullman	DeKalb	Decatur (d)[5]
Elk (d)[5]	Elmore	Etowah	Fayette	Franklin	Hale
Jackson	Jefferson	Jones (d)[5]	Lamar	Lauderdale	Lawrence
Limestone	Macon	Madison	Marion	Marshall	Morgan
Pickens	Randolph	Sanford (d)[5]	Shelby	St. Clair	Talladega
Tallapoosa	Tuscaloosa	Walker	Winston

Georgia

Of Georgia's 159 counties,^[6] 37 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Georgia Appalachians

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37[1] out of 159[6] Georgia County Categories (+1 historic county)
Banks	Barrow	Bartow	Carroll	Cass (1832-1861)[7]	Catoosa
Chattooga	Cherokee	Dade	Dawson	Douglas	Elbert
Fannin	Floyd	Forsyth	Franklin	Gilmer	Gordon
Gwinnett	Habersham	Hall	Haralson	Hart	Heard
Jackson	Lumpkin	Madison	Murray	Paulding	Pickens
Polk	Rabun	Stephens	Towns	Union	Walker
White	Whitfield

Kentucky

Of Kentucky's 120 counties,^[8] 54 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Kentucky Appalachians

Virginia Appalachians (pre-Kentucky, see details here)

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54[1] out of 120[8] Kentucky County Categories
Adair	Bath	Bell	Boyd	Breathitt	Carter
Casey	Clark	Clay	Clinton	Cumberland	Edmonson
Elliott	Estill	Fleming	Floyd	Garrard	Green
Greenup	Harlan	Hart	Jackson	Johnson	Knott
Knox	Laurel	Lawrence	Lee	Leslie	Letcher
Lewis	Lincoln	Madison	Magoffin	Martin	McCreary
Menifee	Metcalfe	Monroe	Montgomery	Morgan	Nicholas
Owsley	Perry	Pike	Powell	Pulaski	Robertson
Rockcastle	Rowan	Russell	Wayne	Whitley	Wolfe

Maryland

Of Maryland's 24 counties,^[9] 3 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Maryland Appalachians

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3[1] out of 24[9] Maryland County Categories
Allegany	Garrett	Washington

Mississippi

Of Mississippi's 82 counties,^[10] 24 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Mississippi Appalachians

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24[1] out of 82[10] Mississippi County Categories
Alcorn	Benton	Calhoun	Chickasaw	Choctaw	Clay
Itawamba	Kemper	Lee	Lowndes	Marshall	Monroe
Montgomery	Noxubee	Oktibbeha	Panola	Pontotoc	Prentiss
Tippah	Tishomingo	Union	Webster	Winston	Yalobusha

New York

Of New York's 62 counties,^[11] 14 are in Appalachia.^[1]

New York Appalachians

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14[1] of 62[11] New York County Categories
Allegany	Broome	Cattaraugus	Chautauqua	Chemung
Chenango	Cortland	Delaware	Otsego	Schoharie
Schuyler	Steuben	Tioga	Tompkins

North Carolina

Of North Carolina's 100 counties,^[12] 31 are in Appalachia.^[1]

North Carolina Appalachians (people profiles)

Workspace for Appalachia Project - North Carolina (includes links to existing space pages)

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31[1] out of 100[12] North Carolina County Categories
Alexander	Alleghany	Ashe	Avery	Buncombe	Burke
Caldwell	Catawba	Cherokee	Clay	Cleveland	Davie
Forsyth	Graham	Haywood	Henderson	Jackson	Macon
Madison	McDowell	Mitchell	Polk	Rutherford	Stokes
Surry	Swain	Transylvania	Tryon	Watauga	Wilkes
Yadkin	Yancey

Ohio

Of Ohio's 88 counties,^[13] 32 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Ohio Appalachians

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32[1] out of 88[13] Ohio County Categories
Adams	Ashtabula	Athens	Belmont	Brown	Carroll
Clermont	Columbiana	Coshocton	Gallia	Guernsey	Harrison
Highland	Hocking	Holmes	Jackson	Jefferson	Lawrence
Mahoning	Meigs	Monroe	Morgan	Muskingum	Noble
Perry	Pike	Ross	Scioto	Trumbull	Tuscarawas
Vinton	Washington

Pennsylvania

Of Pennsylvania's 67 counties,^[14] 52 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Pennsylvania Appalachians

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52[1] out of 67[14] Pennsylvania County Categories
Allegheny	Armstrong	Beaver	Bedford	Blair	Bradford
Butler	Cambria	Cameron	Carbon	Centre	Clarion
Clearfield	Clinton	Columbia	Crawford	Elk	Erie
Fayette	Forest	Fulton	Greene	Huntingdon	Indiana
Jefferson	Juniata	Lackawanna	Lawrence	Luzerne	Lycoming
McKean	Mercer	Mifflin	Monroe	Montour	Northumberland
Perry	Pike	Potter	Schuylkill	Snyder	Somerset
Sullivan	Susquehanna	Tioga	Union	Venango	Warren
Washington	Wayne	Westmoreland	Wyoming

South Carolina

Of South Carolina's 46 counties,^[15] 7 are in Appalachia.^[1]

South Carolina Appalachians

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7[1] out of 46[15] South Carolina County Categories, +7 defunct counties[5]
Anderson	Cherokee	Granville (d)[5]	Greenville
Lewisburg (d)[5]	Liberty (d)[5]	Oconee	Orange (d)[5]
Pickens	Salem (d)[5]	Spartanburg
Union	Winton (d)[5]	Winyah (d)[5]

Tennessee

Of Tennessee's 95 counties,^[16] 52 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Tennessee Appalachians

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52[1] out of 95[16] Tennessee County Categories (+1 historic county)
Anderson	Bledsoe	Blount	Bradley	Campbell	Cannon
Carter	Claiborne	Clay	Cocke	Coffee	Cumberland
DeKalb	Fentress	Franklin	Grainger	Greene	Grundy
Hamblen	Hamilton	Hancock	Hawkins	Jackson	James (1871-1919)
Jefferson	Johnson	Knox	Lawrence	Lewis	Loudon
Macon	Marion	McMinn	Meigs	Monroe	Morgan
Overton	Pickett	Polk	Putnam	Rhea	Roane
Scott	Sequatchie	Sevier	Smith	Sullivan	Unicoi
Union	Van Buren	Warren	Washington	White

Virginia

Of Virginia's 133 counties,^[17] 25 are in Appalachia.^[1]

Virginia Appalachians^[18]

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25[1] out of 133[17] Virginia County Categories
Alleghany	Bath	Bland	Botetourt	Buchanan
Carroll	Craig	Dickenson	Floyd	Giles
Grayson	Henry	Highland	Lee	Montgomery
Patrick	Pulaski	Rockbridge	Russell	Scott
Smyth	Tazewell	Washington	Wise	Wythe

8 Virginia Independent City Categories[1][19]
Bristol, Virginia	Buena Vista, Virginia	Covington, Virginia	Galax, Virginia
Lexington, Virginia	Martinsville, Virginia	Norton, Virginia	Radford, Virginia

West Virginia

Of West Virginia's 55 counties, all are in Appalachia.^[1]

West Virginia Appalachians and

Virginia Appalachians^[18] (in the area that is now West Virginia when it was still Virginia, pre-1863)

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On 20 June 1863, 50 Virginia counties were admitted to the Union as West Virginia. Category pages for those counties - both pre- and post-secession - are listed below.^[20] Today, West Virginia has 55 counties.^[1] The categories for the additional five counties are in the following table, followed by the paired post-1776 Virginia & West Virginia (post-1863) categories.

West Virginia County Categories (Five New Counties Created after 1863)
Grant	Lincoln	Mineral	Mingo	Summers

County Categories - Paired VA & WV (Virginia post-1776 - pre-1863 & West Virginia post-1863)

Va. Barbour Berkeley Boone Braxton Brooke Cabell Calhoun Clay Doddridge Fayette Gilmer Greenbrier Hampshire Hancock Hardy Harrison Jackson Jefferson Kanawha Lewis Logan Marion Marshall Mason McDowell

West Va. Barbour Berkeley Boone Braxton Brooke Cabell Calhoun Clay Doddridge Fayette Gilmer Greenbrier Hampshire Hancock Hardy Harrison Jackson Jefferson Kanawha Lewis Logan Marion Marshall Mason McDowell

Va. Mercer Monongalia Monroe Morgan Nicholas Ohio Pendleton Pleasants Pocahontas Preston Putnam Raleigh Randolph Ritchie Roane Taylor Tucker Tyler Upshur Wayne Webster Wetzel Wirt Wood Wyoming

West Va. Mercer Monongalia Monroe Morgan Nicholas Ohio Pendleton Pleasants Pocahontas Preston Putnam Raleigh Randolph Ritchie Roane Taylor Tucker Tyler Upshur Wayne Webster Wetzel Wirt Wood Wyoming

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27} As listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (here) as of 30 June 2022.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wikipedia's article on West Virginia has an 1861 map of the counties that "Voted on Statehood for West Virginia" (accessed 1 July 2022).
3. ↑ In 1861, Lincoln and Mingo counties did not exist. Lincoln County was created from Cabell County and Mingo County was created from Logan County. (Compare the 1861 map with the map of regions on this page.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Mississippi Counties by Population, accessed 25 December 2022.
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17} The county no longers exists. Research is needed to determine whether it was in Appalachia or not.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Georgia Counties by Population, accessed 23 December 2022.
7. ↑ Cass County, created in 1832, was renamed in 1861 (Bartow County).
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Kentucky Counties by Population, accessed 25 December 2022.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Maryland Counties by Population, accessed 25 December 2022.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Mississippi Counties by Population, accessed 24 December 2022.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Wikipedia: List of counties in New York, accessed 25 December 2022.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} NCpedia: Counties, accessed 24 December 2022.
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} Ohio Counties by Population, accessed 23 December 2022.
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1} Pennsylvania Counties by Population, accessed 24 December 2022.
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1} South Carolina Association of Counties, accessed 25 December 2022.
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1} Tennessee Counties by Population, accessed 23 December 2022.
17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1} Virginia Counties by Population, accessed 25 December 2022.
18. ↑ ^{18.0 18.1} Note that Virginia location categories distinguish between USA and pre-USA counties. See the county categories under Category: Virginia Colony (before 4 July 1776) and Category: Virginia (for logistical purposes, such as categorization, WikiTree uses 4 July 1776 as the start date for USA). The 50 counties that became West Virginia on 20 June 1863 have Virginia county categories that should be used before that date (see the table under West Virginia above). See also the Virginia Project's County table.
19. ↑ The Appalachian Regional Commission includes the independent cities with "an adjacent or surrounding county for the purposes of data analysis and grant management: Bristol (Washington County), Buena Vista (Rockbridge County), Covington (Alleghany County), Galax (Carroll County), Lexington (Rockbridge County), Martinsville (Henry County), Norton (Wise County), and Radford (Montgomery County)". ~ ARC (accessed 30 June 2022)
20. ↑ From the Virginia Project's Virginia Counties and Parishes (accessed 30 June 2022).