page_title: Wood County, West Virginia
hierarchical_section_title: Wood County, West Virginia
caption_attribution_description: English: First courthouse of Wood County, [West] Virginia, a log building erected ca. 1802 at the mouth of Rifle Run, at Parkersburg. Part of the lower floor was used as a jail. Post &amp; pillory in the rear.
context_page_description: Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 86,956, making it West Virginia's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Parkersburg. The county was formed in 1798 from the western part of Harrison County and named for James Wood, governor of Virginia from 1796 to 1799.
  Wood County is part of the Parkersburg-Vienna, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.
context_section_description: Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 86,956, making it West Virginia's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Parkersburg. The county was formed in 1798 from the western part of Harrison County and named for James Wood, governor of Virginia from 1796 to 1799.
  Wood County is part of the Parkersburg-Vienna, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.
caption: First courthouse in Wood County (ca. 1802), sketch by Joseph H. Diss Debar.
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