WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



The area of Lewis County, as enumerated above, has been 

 greatly reduced by the formation of Barbour, Doddridge, Gil- 

 mer, Ritchie and Upshur Counties, all of which secured a sec- 

 tion of its original territory. 



Area. The area of Lewis County, as determined with 

 planimeter by Gawthrop from the topographic sheets of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, is as follows : 



Districts. 



Hackers Creek 



j^reemans Creek 



Courthouse 



Skin Creek 



Collins Settlement.. 



Square Miles. 

 . . . . 62.08 

 . . . . 114.53 



84.64 



40.47 



89.63 



Total for County 391.35 



Relief. The surface of Lewis County varies in elevation 

 from 760 feet above sea level, at the point where Leading Creek 

 crosses the Lewis-Gilmer Line at Linn, to 1950 feet at the 

 summit of a high knob 1.8 miles northwest of Cleveland, in the 

 southern panhandle, making a maximum variation of 1190 feet, 

 and thus rendering climatic conditions much the same over 

 the entire county. 



Population. The following table, taken from the U. S. 

 Census returns for 1910, shows the population of Lewis County 

 by magisterial districts for the last three enumerations : 



Population of Lewis County. 



Minor Civil Division. 



1910 



Collins Settlement District. . .| 3,068 



Court House District, including parts of Wards 

 1 to 4 of Weston town. . 



Weston town (part of) 



Total for Weston town in Court House, 

 Freemans C r e ek and Hackers 



Creek Districts 



Ward 1 



Ward 2 



Ward 3 



Ward 4 



Freemans Creek District, including parts of 



Wards 1 and 2 of Weston town 



Weston town (part of) 



Hackers Creek District, including Jane Lew 

 town and parts of Wards 2 and 4 of Wes- 

 ton town 



Jane Lew town 



Weston town (part of) 



Skin Creek District.. 



5,177 

 950 



2,213 

 756 

 443 

 492 

 522 



5,283 

 633 



3,522 

 327 

 630 



1,231 



1900 

 3,200 



4,721 

 1,931 



2,560 



4,564 

 253 



2,951 



"376 

 1,544 



1890 

 3,015" 



2,629 



2,143 



4,122 



4,53? 



2.14J 

 1,596 



Totals for County (18,281 (16,980 115,895 



