Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Ohio County, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains within the state's northern panhandle. It is the fifth-most populous city in West Virginia and the most populous city in the northern panhandle with a population of 27,062 at the 2020 census. The Wheeling metropolitan area had 139,513 residents in 2020.
Southeast
Wheeling
Ohio County, WV
Population
26,900
Walk Score
76 · Very Walkable
Median rent
$748
Median home value
$131,600
Founded
1769
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On the National Register
Historic districts
- Centre Market Square Historic District · listed 1984
- Centre Market Square Historic District (Boundary Increase) · listed 1987
- Chapline Street Row Historic District · listed 1984
- Dimmeydale Historic District
- East Wheeling Historic District · listed 1999
- Edemar · listed 1992
- Elm Hill · listed 1991
- Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
- Highland Park Historic District · listed 1993
- La Belle Iron Works · listed 1997
- Monroe Street East Historic District · listed 1980
- Mt. Woods Cemetery · listed 2013
- National Road Corridor Historic District · listed 1993
- North Wheeling Historic District · listed 1988
- North Wheeling Historic District (Boundary Increase) · listed 2008
- North Wheeling Historic District (Boundary Increase) · listed 2022
- Reymann Brewing Company
- Schmulbach Brewing Company
- South Wheeling Historic District
- South Wheeling Historic District · listed 2020
- Warwood Historic District · listed 2025
- Wheeling Country Club · listed 1990
- Wheeling Historic District · listed 1979
- Wheeling Historic District (Additional Documentation) · listed 1979
- Wheeling Historic District (Additional Documentation) · listed 1979
- Wheeling Island Historic District · listed 1992
- Wheeling Warehouse Historic District · listed 2002
- Wheeling Warehouse Historic District (Boundary Increase) · listed 2022
- Woodsdale-Edgewood Neighborhood Historic District · listed 1997
Notable landmarks
- Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company
- Bridgeport Bridge
- Carter Farm · listed 1983
- Cathedral Parish School · listed 1997
- Center Wheeling Market · listed 1975
- Elm Grove Stone Arch Bridge · listed 1981
- Feay Inn · listed 1993
- Fischer-Lasch Farmhouse · listed 1995
- Franzheim, Harry C. and Jessie F., House · listed 1989
- Good, L. S., House · listed 1988
- Hazlett, Robert W., House · listed 1991
- Lang-Hess House · listed 2006
- List, Henry K., House · listed 1978
- Marsh, M., and Son
- McKinley, Johnson Camden, House · listed 1983
- McLure, John, House · listed 1991
- Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy · listed 1978
- Mount Saint Joseph · listed 2008
- Ogden, H. C., House · listed 1990
- Oglebay Mansion Museum · listed 1979
- Riverside Iron Works Office Building · listed 2015
- Russell, Charles W., House · listed 1993
- Shepherd Hall · listed 1970
- Sterling Products, Incorporated
- Tiernan, William Miles, House · listed 1993
- …and 8 more
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