hampshire_county_field

A Hampshire County corn farm early in the growing season.

Office Information

WVU Extension Service
Hampshire County Extension Office
78 East Main Street
P. O. Box 1880
Romney, WV 26757-1880

Phone 304-822-5013
Fax 304-822-7864
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00-4:00
Driving Directions

WVU Serving all 55 of West Virginia’s Counties

The WVU Extension Service provides programs in 4-H, Agriculture, Families and Health, Community Economic Development with support from West Virginia University faculty and staff. The Extension Service also maintains a historic special-mission campus at WVU Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Camp near Weston, WV.

Give eXtension a try!

Extension knowledge can be found online anytime through eXtension, a Web portal to the nation’s largest educational and informational system staffed by Extension experts. When you click the button below, you’ll link to eXtension!

Logon and get objective, research-based, credible information and tools you can use from eXtension.

People in Your Community…Knowledge at Your Doorstep

Welcome

The WVU Extension Service, with its local county office based in Romney, is here to help the citizens of Hampshire County. The Extension Service provides information and educational resources for farmers, gardeners, youth development (through 4-H), family health, and workforce development. To meet and support the needs of local people and communities, county faculty and staff involve local residents in developing and leading specific programs and activities.

Romney is the county seat, and 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. As of 2000, the population of Hampshire County was 20,203. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 645 square miles (1,670 kmē), of which, 642 square miles (1,662 kmē) of it is land and 3 square miles (8 kmē) of it (0.45%) is water. Hampshire County is part of the Winchester, VA-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

Part of the National Cooperative Extension System

With more than 3,000 county offices in the USA, the National Cooperative Extension System is the local front door for many citizens to their state land-grant institutions. All universities engage in research and teaching, but the nation’s more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities including WVU, have another critical mission: Extension. Extension means reaching out, and along with teaching and research land-grant institutions extend their resources, solving public needs with college or university resources through local programs. We are also your link to West Virginia University’s colleges and offices.