Keyser, West Virginia Keyser, West Virginia Location of Keyser, West Virginia Location of Keyser, West Virginia State West Virginia Keyser (/ ka .z r/) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.

Keyser, the governmental center of county of Mineral County, is positioned on the North Branch of the Potomac River in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

The first white men to pass through present Keyser are believed to have been William Mayo and George Savage, sent by Lord Fairfax in 1736 to seek out the origin of the Potomac River.

Mineral County was created in 1866, with Keyser as its county seat.

Fort Fuller was assembled on the present site of Potomac State College of West Virginia University.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.92 square miles (4.97 km2), all land. The type locality of the Silurian/Devonian Keyser Formation, a limestone, is positioned in a quarry and roadcut east of the town.

There were 2,224 homeholds of which 26.8% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 35.6% were married couples residing together, 14.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.7% were non-families.

37.5% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 18.5% had someone residing alone who was 65 years of age or older.

19.4% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 19% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19.8% were from 25 to 44; 24.7% were from 45 to 64; and 17.1% were 65 years of age or older.

There were 2,241 homeholds out of which 24.8% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 42.3% were married couples residing together, 13.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.5% were non-families.

36.4% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 18.6% had someone residing alone who was 65 years of age or older.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.0% under the age of 18, 13.5% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 21.0% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $23,718, and the median income for a family was $32,708.

About 16.3% of families and 18.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 34.2% of those under age 18 and 11.0% of those age 65 or over.

The old Keyser High School in January 2014 Keyser is the home of the Potomac State College of West Virginia University, a junior college that serves primarily as a feeder college to WVU's chief campus in Morgantown.

Keyser's enhance schools are part of the Mineral County school system.

The schools in Keyser include Fountain Primary School, which covers Pre-Kindergarten through Fourth Grade; Keyser Middle School, which covers sixth through Eighth Grade; Keyser High School, which covers Ninth through Twelfth Grades; Mineral County Alternative School; and the Mineral County Tech Center, a vocational school.

A new Keyser Primary School is scheduled to open on January 8, 2014. The new facility is positioned just north and contiguous to the ground that previously homed both the major and middle Schools for the Keyser area.

Once the old facility is vacated by the Keyser Primary School, it will remain in use by the Keyser Middle School. The town/city and encircling county are served by a everyday newspaper, the Mineral Daily News-Tribune.

William Armstrong (1782 1865 United States representative from Virginia.

Catherine Marshall (1914 1983) American author known for her inspirational works, prominently the novel Christy; raised in Keyser Harley Orrin Staggers (1907 1991) United States Congressman; born in Keyser Keyser is mentioned in the BBC tv mini series The State Within (Season 1, Episode 1).

British SAS are shown on a raid, the screen clearly labels the locale "Keyser, West Virginia." One of their members is killed in a shoot out and dumped in a close-by stream positioned in the fictitious "Fairmont County, West Virginia." United States Enumeration Bureau.

West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains.

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

William Armstrong at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Geographic data related to Keyser, West Virginia at Open - Street - Map Municipalities and communities of Mineral County, West Virginia, United States Municipalities of West Virginia The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia

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