Geography
The Eastern Panhandle includes both West Virginia's highest and lowest elevations above sea level: Spruce Knob, 4,863 feet (1,482 m), in Pendleton and Harpers Ferry, 240 feet (73 m), in Jefferson on the Potomac River. The region is separated from the remainder of the state by the Allegheny Front, which separates the Mississippi watershed from that of Chesapeake Bay.
The eight counties in the eastern panhandle are:
- Berkeley
- Grant
- Hampshire
- Hardy
- Jefferson
- Mineral
- Morgan
- Pendleton
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