NURS 4211 Week 5 Assignment

Disaster Planning for Public Health: Huntington, WV 

Huntington, WV, located on the banks of the Ohio River in southwestern West Virginia, is a small, diverse urban community located in Cabell County, WV. The largest city in the tristate region, Huntington’s population of roughly forty-eight thousand (48,000) people makes up slightly more than fifty percent of the county’s ninety-five thousand nine-hundred eighty- seven (95,987) residents (United States Census Bureau, 2016; “Huntington, WV,” n.d.). Huntington is known for its commerce and heavy industrial processing for oil, coal, gas, chemicals, and steel (“Huntington, WV,” n.d.). The city is also the largest inland waterway port in the U.S., making use of Huntington’s intricate railroad systems that run through the heart of the city (“Huntington, WV,” n.d.).