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Moundsville is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 8,122 at the 2020 census. It is allowance of the Wheeling metropolitan area. The city was named for the approachable ancient Grave Creek Mound, constructed 250 to 100 BC by original people of the Adena culture.

In 1771, English colonists Samuel and James Tomlinson built a cabin at what sophisticated became Moundsville, although they did not overwinter, and truly left for several years after attacks by Native Americans. Elizabethtown, as Tomlinson’s community was called, was incorporated in 1830 and would become the county seat on the inauguration of Marshall County in 1835. Nearby, the town of Mound City was incorporated in 1832. The two towns amassed in 1865. In 1852 a extraction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened, connecting the eastern rail network gone the Ohio and Mississippi riverboat system; Moundsville was an important harbor until 1861, when the Civil War shut alongside the river system and caused major damage to the railroad. Fostoria Glass Company (specializing in hand-blown glassworks) was headquartered in Moundsville from 1891 to 1986. The retired West Virginia State Penitentiary operated in Moundsville from 1867 to 1995. On August 4, 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed The Spirit of St. Louis at Langin Field in Moundsville.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.36 square miles (8.70 km), of which 2.91 square miles (7.54 km) is estate and 0.45 square miles (1.17 km) is water.