Star City is a town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

[5] It is included in the Morgantown, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area.

[7][8] By 1910 the Socialist Party of America had organized a branch in the town and within a year had won four out of five seats in the city council, as part of a wider national political movement of the time.

To avoid un-American connotations that became associated with the name after World War I, the Socialist Party of Star City in 1918 renamed itself the Independent Citizens' party and won back local government, partly due to its opposition to the regressive "capitation tax" the Citizens' Party had imposed.

[12] Until that time, the Socialists were a mainstay of this working-class town, organizing the Workingmen's Co-operative Store and creating community pillars with Local Twenty-six of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union and the Young People's Socialist League.

[13] The Star City Volunteer Fire Department was founded in the 1939.

The agency responds to approximately 1,200 emergency calls per year and provides Firefighting and Rescue services to the town of Star City and surrounding unincorporated areas.

39.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

41.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.