The United States of America is a federal union of 50 states and a capital district. The state of West Virginia is in the Appalachian Mountains west of Virginia and southeast of Ohio. When Virginia seceded from the Union to join the Confederate States in 1861 its western counties refused to go along. They organized a separate government and West Virginia was admitted to the Union as the 35th state in 1863. The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley, based in Louisville, Kentucky, maintains aids to navigation on the Ohio River along the northwestern border of the state and on the Kanawha River, an important tributary of the Ohio. Most of those aids are simple post lights. To be listed here a lighthouse must actually serve as an aid to navigation. This means it must be located on a navigable lake or river and must be lit as a navigational aid at least during the local boating season. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. USCG numbers are from Volume 5 of the U.S. Coast Guard List of Lights.
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Posted March 17, 2013. Checked and revised October 16, 2024. Lighthouses: 2. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.