Geography
A City of Weirton is placed at 40°Two dozen'31" North, 80°34'33" West (Xl.408567, -Fourscore.575959). It extends from either a Ohio border on the west to the Pennsylvania border on a east at a point in which the northern extension of West Virginia is merely astir V miles through. So, these are a lone city in the United States that borders 2 more states in 2 sides, & its have state on the other two sides.

Weirton is through a Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio, and astir 35 miles west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along U.S. Route Twenty-two. Pittsburgh International Airport is less than 30 miles away.

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the amount vicinity of 49.Ennead km² (19.3 mi²). 46.Troika klick² (Seventeen.Nine mi²) of these are l& and Troika.Hexad klick² (One.Iv mi²) of these are fluids. A number metropolitan area is Septet.22% a river.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 20,411 people, 8,958 house, & 5,885 families living in the city. A population density is 441.0/km² (1,142.2/mi²). There are 9,546 housing units at an typical density of 206.3/km² (534.2/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 94.52% White, 3.86% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.59% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.14% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. Cipher.68% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 8,958 family away from which Twenty-three.8% use at times toddlers under a age of Eighteen swallow the two, 51.4% come married couples living together, 10.6% have a female homeowner using there are no married man present, & 34.3% come non-families. Xxx.8% of tons menage come manufactured higher of people & Fifteen.9% stand individual dwelling alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical house size is Deuce.Xxv & a typical personal size is Ii.79.

A age distribution is Xix.2% under a age of Eighteen, Sise.6% from either 18 to Two dozen, Twenty-six.5% from either Xxv to 44, 25.4% from either 45 to 64, & Xxii.3% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 44 years. For each C females there are 88.Six males. For each C females age Eighteen & concluded, there are 85.Six males.

the median income for a house in the city is $35,212, & the median income for a personal is $42,466. Males have a median income of $37,129 versus $19,745 for females. A per capita income for the city is $18,853. Ten.3% of the people & Octet.0% of families come in a image below the poverty line. Away from a aggregate people, Xiv.0% of people under a age of 18 & 7.9% of victims 65 & older come residing beneath a poverty level.

History

A little village known as Holliday's Cove -- which is nowadays virtually all of downtown Weirton -- was founded in the late 1700s. (It at length misused a apostrophe.) Inside 1909, Ernest T. Weir, built the steel plant late called Weirton Steel Company just north of Hollidays Cove. An unincorporated class action settlement known as Weirton grew higher as much as a mill, that by 1940 was said to become a big unincorporated city in the United States. By so Hollidays Cove & 2 more outlying areas, Weirton Heights & Marland Heights, got besides incorporated.

In July One, 1947, completely one arewhen -- Hollidays Cove, Marl& Heights, Weirton Heights, & unincorporated Weirton -- merged and formed a City of Weirton as it presently lives. Thomas E. Millsop, a head of a Weirton Steel section of the National Steel Corporation, wwhen elected as the city's foremost city manager.

[http://www.intlsteel.com/content/facilities/fac_Weirton.aspx ISG Weirton Inc.], at one time a [http://www.weirton.com/company/index.html Weirton Steel Company], is the united states's 2nd big tin maker, a city's big employer, & [http://www.dailymail.com/static/specialsections/employers/emp4.html the fourth largest private employer in the state].