Century Junction, West Virginia

Community	2016 ^<1> Population	Direction	Distance ^<2>
Fairmont	18,622	N	28 miles [45.1 km]
Clarksburg	16,035	NW	18 miles [29 km]
Bridgeport	8,364	NW	17 miles [27.4 km]
Elkins	7,187	SE	17 miles [27.4 km]
Buckhannon	5,612	SW	8 miles [12.9 km]
Grafton	5,127	N	19 miles [30.6 km]

Barbour County ...

Century Junction is located in Barbour County.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Barbour County.

Population Rings for Century Junction ...

To help identify the number of people who live in Century Junction and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Century Junction. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<3> We don't have the population of Century Junction, so its people haven't been included.

Radius	No of Communities	2016 Population	Change Since 2010
10 mi [16 km]	4	11,055	+5.03%
15 mi [24 km]	11	15,486	+2.63%
20 mi [32 km]	20	59,264	---
25 mi [40 km]	28	65,822	-0.24%
30 mi [48 km]	37	92,874	-0.21%

Miscellaneous Information for Century Junction ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has referenced one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Barbour County or the community of Century Junction:

The GNIS Codes ...

The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Century Junction:

GNIS ID for Century Junction: 1554103

GNIS ID for Barbour County: 1696996

GNIS ID for West Virginia: 1779805

The FIPS Codes ...

An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):

State Code: 54 (West Virginia)

County Code: 001 (Barbour County)

Place Code: 14236 (Century Junction)

State & County Code: 54/001 (West Virginia / Barbour County)

State & Place Code: 54/14236 (West Virginia / Century Junction)

Misc. Census Codes ...

Century Junction is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Century Junction.

Other Roadside Stops ...

Cities, Towns and Villages of West Virginia

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Off-the-Road Links ...

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The official website of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Footnotes ...

<1>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. - Return to Citation
<2>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance starting in Century Junction. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Century Junction) to Point B. Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Century Junction. The point that we are using is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0743, Longitude: -80.1170 [Map]. In this case, the coordinates for Century Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). - Return to Citation
<3>	The communities in our count are those provided by the 2010 Census, so keep in mind that our population rings will only include the people living in those communities. Smaller communities usually don't participate directly in the Census and therefore they won't be included. While our count is a close approximation, it shouldn't be considered as a complete or accurate count. - Return to Citation

For additional information, please visit our Glossary for Century Junction.