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Wolfhurst is an unincorporated census-designated place in eastern Belmont County, Ohio — it has no city or village government of its own and is counted by the Census Bureau purely as a statistical community.

Wolfhurst sits in the valley of Wheeling Creek and is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia metropolitan area, even though it lies on the Ohio side of the river.

U.S. Route 40 — the historic National Road — passes directly through the center of Wolfhurst, putting downtown Wheeling, West Virginia just 4 miles to the east.

Wolfhurst had 1,119 residents at the 2020 census, down slightly from 1,239 at the 2010 census.

Wolfhurst packs its roughly 1,100 residents into just 0.50 square miles of land, a density of about 2,313 people per square mile — unusually dense for a small Ohio River valley community.

Census Bureau survey estimates put Wolfhurst's median household income at about $42,838 in 2022, with an average household size of about 2.0 people.

The community is served by its own Wolfhurst Volunteer Fire Department, whose Station 41 is one of the CDP's main landmarks.