Monroe County, OH neighbors Belmont near Woodsfield metropolitan centre yielding a 2020 estimated census population standing at 14,246 making it the 56th least populous county situated hereabouts. Its county seat is Woodsfield with other towns include Stafford & Beallsville-Woodsfield itself corresponds out to Monroe’s biggesttown aside from acknowledged country seat. This area had been established out of Belmont and Washington Counties back in 1813 when local residents petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Founding Father James Monroe control through region James Madison .