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Wetzel -- U.S. County in West Virginia
Population (2000): 17693
Housing Units (2000): 8313
Land area (2000): 359.221754 sq. miles (930.380031 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.144177 sq. miles (5.553393 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 361.365931 sq. miles (935.933424 sq. km)
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.630583 N, 80.725033 W
Headwords:
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Wetzel

Wetzel is the name of several persons, places, and other entities:

People:

  • Carl Wetzel (born 1938), American hockey player
  • Dan Wetzel, American writer and sports columnist
  • David Wetzel (born ca. 1980?), American musician, member of the band Ghosty.
  • Donald Wetzel, American baseball player and inventor
  • Gary George Wetzel (born 1947), American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
  • George P. Wetzel, Sr. (1921-2014), American legislator and jurist
  • Jake Wetzel (born 1976), American-Canadian rower
  • John Wetzel (basketball) (born 1944), American basketball player and coach
  • John Wetzel (American football) (born 1991), professional American football player
  • John Wetzel (Pennsylvania), Pennsylvania Secretary of Corrections
  • Julia Wetzel, American cryptologist with the National Security Administration
  • Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel (1779–1819), German writer
  • Lewis Wetzel (1763–1808), American frontiersman
  • Robert Lewis "Sam" Wetzel, American army officer
  • Sylvia Wetzel (born 1949), German feminist
  • Walter C. Wetzel (died 1945), American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient

Other:

  • Wetzel County, West Virginia
  • Wetzel's Pretzels, an American restaurant chain
  • Wetzel's Climbing Mouse, Rhipidomys wetzeli, a species of mouse native to Venezuela.

Usage examples of "wetzel".

Major McColloch, who had been warned by Wetzel of the fever of unrest among the Indians--a fever which broke out every spring--had gone to Fort Pitt with the hope of bringing back reinforcements, but, excepting the young soldier, who had volunteered to return with him, no help could he enlist, so he journeyed back post-haste to Fort Henry.

Lew Wetzel and your brother Jonathan, when they are not fighting Indians, are examples.

Lew Wetzel is the heftiest of 'em all, an' we hev some as kin fight out here.

Wetzel did not mind the weather or the ill luck, and when we ran across some Indian sign he went off on one of his lonely tramps, leaving me to come home alone.

Jonathan and Wetzel tell me the Shawnees and Chippewas have taken the warpath again.