Editing Morgantown, West Virginia (section)

==Geography==
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Morgantown is {{convert|75|mi}} south of [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], {{convert|208|mi|abbr=on}} west-northwest of Washington, D.C., {{convert|81|mi|abbr=on}} east of [[Marietta, Ohio]], and {{convert|156|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of [[Charleston, West Virginia|Charleston]]. Morgantown is just south of the [[Mason–Dixon line]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|10.62|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|10.17|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.45|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web |title=US Gazetteer files 2010 |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=January 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |archive-date=January 25, 2012 }}</ref>

===Neighborhoods===
[[File:Downtownmorgantown.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of downtown Morgantown.]]
Morgantown is made up of several neighborhoods, some of which had been independent towns that were annexed by the city as it continued to grow. Neighborhoods include First Ward, Woodburn, South Park, Jerome Park, South Hills, Second Ward, Greenmont, Suncrest, Evansdale, Wiles Hill, [[Sunnyside, Morgantown, West Virginia|Sunnyside]], Sabraton, the Mileground, and North Hills. While some of these, such as the Mileground, Easton, and Sabraton, are in part or entirely outside the city limits, they are still considered part of Morgantown. The City of Morgantown contained just over 30,000 permanent residents in 2020.<ref name="U.S. Decennial Census" /> The city is host to about 30,000 students at West Virginia University.<ref name="WVU Facts">{{cite web|title=WVU Facts|url=https://www.wvu.edu/about-wvu/wvu-facts|publisher=West Virginia University|access-date=May 23, 2019}}</ref>

[[Sunnyside, Morgantown, West Virginia|Sunnyside]], just north of downtown Morgantown, is an older neighborhood adjacent to West Virginia University's downtown campus. The neighborhood is bounded by University Avenue to the east and Campus Drive to the south. Close to the downtown campus of West Virginia University and for decades known as a neighborhood of student housing, is also the scene of many off-campus parties and post-game celebrations including, until 1995, the unsanctioned annual back-to-school [[block party]] that would annually draw upward of 10,000 revelers to celebrate the start of fall classes.<ref name=quieteraffair /><ref>{{cite news|last=Ahrens|first=Frank|title=WVU, No. 1 in Fun? You Can Count Me Out|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/13584703.html?dids=13584703:13584703&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+21%2C+1997&author=Frank+Ahrens&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=WVU%2C+No.+1+in+Fun%3F+You+Can+Count+Me+Out.&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616051348/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/13584703.html?dids=13584703:13584703&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+21,+1997&author=Frank+Ahrens&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=WVU,+No.+1+in+Fun%3F+You+Can+Count+Me+Out.&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2013|access-date=April 15, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 21, 1997}}</ref> The university and city put an end to the tradition that year after two students were shot the previous year.<ref name=quieteraffair>{{cite news|title=WVU's Back-To-School Party A Quieter Affair This Year|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PG&p_theme=pg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADF72F8D902BCB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=April 15, 2013|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 22, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=2 WVU Students Shot at Unsactioned Party|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PG&p_theme=pg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADF0B6935F118A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=April 15, 2013|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 24, 1994}}</ref> The City of Morgantown and West Virginia University jointly established the [[Sunnyside, Morgantown, West Virginia|Sunnyside]] Up Project: Campus Neighborhoods Revitalization Corporation, dedicated to the redevelopment of this area. The first step was to create a comprehensive revitalization plan, which was published in fall 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morgantown.com/sunnyside/Sunnyside.pdf |title=Sunnyside Up Project: Campus Neighborhoods Revitalization Corporation |publisher=Morgantown.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305115845/http://www.morgantown.com/sunnyside/Sunnyside.pdf |archive-date=March 5, 2012 }}</ref> The university's Summit Hall Dormitory and the Honors Hall Dormitory are in the southern part of the neighborhood.

Woodburn used to be farmland on the hills to the east of downtown Morgantown. The area saw a rapid growth in population at the beginning of the 20th century as home to tinsmiths from [[Wales]] who came to work in the tinplate mill that later became the [[Sterling Faucet Company]] plant in Sabraton. A trolley line ran the length of Richwood Avenue and originally connected downtown with Sabraton. The Welsh community was active in the [[Methodist]] Church at the intersection of High Street and Willey Street, and held picnics in Whitemoore Park, the main green space in Woodburn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boparc.org/pocket-parks.html|title=Pocket Parks|website=MORGANTOWN BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION|accessdate=April 13, 2021}}</ref>  Many of these immigrants retained the [[Welsh language]], and as late as the 1930s it was common to hear Welsh spoken on the streets of Woodburn and the community was known for carrying on a traditional [[eisteddfod]] every year.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Located in the southeastern part of Morgantown, Sabraton is a former [[coal town]] and was previously known as Sturgiss City and Sabraton Station. The community was named after Sabra Vance Sturgiss, the wife of a local judge.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=572;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=546}}</ref> Part of Sabraton was home to a tin plate mill, which later become a manufacturing plant for Sterling Faucet. In its early days, Sabraton was connected to downtown Morgantown by a trolley line that ran the length of Richwood Avenue. Its amenities include Marilla Park.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.boparc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=5 | title= Marilla Park | publisher = Morgantown Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners | access-date = December 14, 2012}}{{dead link|date=June 2013}}</ref>

===Terrain===
Morgantown lies in the Appalachian Region. The city is hilly with several sections rising over {{convert|1,200|feet}} in elevation. The highest point is {{convert|1,398|feet}} on Sky Rock in Dorsey Knob Park. The lowest point is on the banks of the Monongahela River at {{convert|800|feet}}. The area surrounding Morgantown is mountainous. [[Coopers Rock State Forest]], {{convert|12|miles}} east of Morgantown, has elevations between {{convert|2,000|feet}} and {{convert|2,400|feet}} above sea level.

===Climate===
Morgantown lies on the border between a [[humid subtropical]] [[Humid subtropical climate|climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''Cfa'') and a [[humid continental climate]] (Köppen ''Dfa''), with four distinct seasons. Winters are cool to cold with a January daily mean temperature of {{convert|32.0|°F|1}}, an average annual snowfall of {{convert|27.6|in|cm}} and 1.3 nights of sub-{{convert|0|°F}} readings.<ref name = "NOAA txt"/> Summers are hot and humid with a July daily mean temperature of {{convert|74.1|°F|1}} and 13.2 days of {{convert|90|°F}}+ highs annually.<ref name = "NOAA txt"/> Precipitation is generous, with winter being the driest period and May through July the wettest. Extreme temperatures range from {{convert|−25|°F}} on [[Great Blizzard of 1899#Arctic cold|February 10, 1899]], up to {{convert|105|°F}} on August 26, 1893.

{{Weather box
|location = Morgantown, West Virginia ([[Morgantown Municipal Airport]]), 1991–2020 normals,{{efn|Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. the expected highest and lowest temperature readings at any point during the year or given month) calculated based on data at said location from 1991 to 2020.}} extremes 1872–present{{efn|Records kept intermittently from May 1872 to December 1892 and more regularly at Morgantown Municipal Airport since November 1945, although the [[National Weather Service]] had ceased measuring snowfall at this location in December 1999. See [http://threadex.rcc-acis.org/ ThreadEx] for coverage details.}}
|single line = Y
|Jan record high F = 79
|Feb record high F = 80
|Mar record high F = 87
|Apr record high F = 93
|May record high F = 95
|Jun record high F = 99
|Jul record high F = 103
|Aug record high F = 105
|Sep record high F = 102
|Oct record high F = 94
|Nov record high F = 83
|Dec record high F = 77
|year record high F = 105
|Jan avg record high F = 65.7
|Feb avg record high F = 67.0
|Mar avg record high F = 75.4
|Apr avg record high F = 83.5
|May avg record high F = 88.0
|Jun avg record high F = 90.8
|Jul avg record high F = 92.5
|Aug avg record high F = 91.4
|Sep avg record high F = 89.2
|Oct avg record high F = 82.3
|Nov avg record high F = 74.7
|Dec avg record high F = 66.1
|year avg record high F = 93.3
|Jan high F = 40.1
|Feb high F = 43.7
|Mar high F = 52.6
|Apr high F = 65.2
|May high F = 73.6
|Jun high F = 80.9
|Jul high F = 84.4
|Aug high F = 83.1
|Sep high F = 77.1
|Oct high F = 65.9
|Nov high F = 54.1
|Dec high F = 44.3
|year high F = 63.8
|Jan mean F = 32.0
|Feb mean F = 34.8
|Mar mean F = 42.6
|Apr mean F = 53.8
|May mean F = 62.6
|Jun mean F = 70.3
|Jul mean F = 74.1
|Aug mean F = 72.8
|Sep mean F = 66.5
|Oct mean F = 55.3
|Nov mean F = 44.9
|Dec mean F = 36.4
|year mean F = 53.8
|Jan low F = 24.0
|Feb low F = 25.8
|Mar low F = 32.6
|Apr low F = 42.4
|May low F = 51.5
|Jun low F = 59.7
|Jul low F = 63.8
|Aug low F = 62.5
|Sep low F = 55.9
|Oct low F = 44.7
|Nov low F = 35.8
|Dec low F = 28.6
|year low F = 43.9
|Jan avg record low F = 2.6
|Feb avg record low F = 7.0
|Mar avg record low F = 13.8
|Apr avg record low F = 26.1
|May avg record low F = 35.5
|Jun avg record low F = 45.3
|Jul avg record low F = 52.7
|Aug avg record low F = 51.9
|Sep avg record low F = 41.9
|Oct avg record low F = 29.9
|Nov avg record low F = 19.8
|Dec avg record low F = 11.6
|year avg record low F = 0.3
|Jan record low F = −20
|Feb record low F = −25
|Mar record low F = −4
|Apr record low F = 6
|May record low F = 25
|Jun record low F = 30
|Jul record low F = 40
|Aug record low F = 38
|Sep record low F = 30
|Oct record low F = 15
|Nov record low F = −1
|Dec record low F = −16
|year record low F = -25
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation inch = 3.12
|Feb precipitation inch = 2.81
|Mar precipitation inch = 3.65
|Apr precipitation inch = 3.87
|May precipitation inch = 4.33
|Jun precipitation inch = 4.07
|Jul precipitation inch = 4.93
|Aug precipitation inch = 3.65
|Sep precipitation inch = 3.41
|Oct precipitation inch = 3.09
|Nov precipitation inch = 3.02
|Dec precipitation inch = 3.20
|year precipitation inch = 43.15
|Jan snow inch = 9.1
|Feb snow inch = 5.5
|Mar snow inch = 7.0
|Apr snow inch = 1.0
|May snow inch = 0.0
|Jun snow inch = 0.0
|Jul snow inch = 0.0
|Aug snow inch = 0.0
|Sep snow inch = 0.0
|Oct snow inch = 0.1
|Nov snow inch = 1.1
|Dec snow inch = 3.8
|year snow inch = 27.6
|unit precipitation days = 0.01 in
|Jan precipitation days = 15.5
|Feb precipitation days = 13.0
|Mar precipitation days = 14.4
|Apr precipitation days = 14.1
|May precipitation days = 14.7
|Jun precipitation days = 13.1
|Jul precipitation days = 12.4
|Aug precipitation days = 10.5
|Sep precipitation days = 10.3
|Oct precipitation days = 11.4
|Nov precipitation days = 11.7
|Dec precipitation days = 13.9
|year precipitation days = 155.0
|unit snow days = 0.1 in
|Jan snow days = 6.1
|Feb snow days = 4.3
|Mar snow days = 3.3
|Apr snow days = 0.3
|May snow days = 0.0
|Jun snow days = 0.0
|Jul snow days = 0.0
|Aug snow days = 0.0
|Sep snow days = 0.0
|Oct snow days = 0.2
|Nov snow days = 1.1
|Dec snow days = 3.5
|year snow days = 18.8
|source 1 = [[NOAA]] (snow 1981–2010)<ref name = NOAA>{{cite web
| url = https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=pbz
| title = NowData - NOAA Online Weather Data
| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
| access-date = June 10, 2021}}</ref><ref name = "NOAA txt">{{cite web
| url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USW00013736&format=pdf
| title = Station: Morgantown Hart FLD, WV
| work = U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020)
| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
| access-date = June 10, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USW00013736&format=pdf
| title = Station: Morgantown Hart Field, WV
| work = U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1981-2010)
| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
| access-date = June 10, 2021}}</ref>
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