Hampshire County

Year Organized: 1762

Square Miles: 644

Size of Board: 3

MSA: Winchester, VA-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

Cites: Augusta Barnes Mill Bloomery Blues Beach Bubbling Spring Capon Lake Capon Springs Capon Springs Station Cold Stream Creekvale Davis Ford Delray Dillons Run Donaldson Forks of Cacapon Frenchburg Glebe Good Grace Green Spring Hainesville Hanging Rock Higginsville High View Hooks Mills Hoy Intermont Jericho Junction Kirby Largent Lehew Levels Little Cacapon Loom Mechanicsburg Millbrook Millen Millesons Mill Neals Run Nero North River Mills Okonoko Pancake Pin Oak Pleasant Dale Points Purgitsville Rada Raven Rocks Ridgedale Rio Ruckman Sector Sedan Shanks Shiloh Slanesville South Branch Depot Springfield Three Churches Vance Vanderlip Wappocomo Woodrow Yellow Spring

Libraries: Romney and Capon Bridge

Population: 23,964

County History:

Hampshire County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2010, the population was 23,964. Its county seat is Romney[1], West Virginia's oldest town (1762). Hampshire County was created by the Virginia General Assembly on December 13, 1753, from parts of Frederick and Augusta counties (Virginia) and is the oldest county in the state of West Virginia. The county lies in both West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands regions. Hampshire County is part of the Winchester, VA-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).