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Scouting in West Virginia

Scouting council

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ7438606 ↗
Source-derived summary

Scouting in West Virginia has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

Early history (1909-1950)

In 1920, the Fairmont Council was founded. It closed in 1922.

In 1921, the Morgantown Council was founded. It closed in 1923.

In 1922, the Grafton Council was founded. It closed in 1923.

In 1923, the New River District Council (#615) was founded. It closed in 1923.

In 1928, the Mountaineer Area Council was founded.

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“Scouting in West Virginia” enters the record as scouting council. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scouting, West and Virginia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1909, 1950, 1920, 1922—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Scouting, West and Virginia.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7438606. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1909, 1950, 1920 and 1922.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scouting in West Virginia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.