THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Dissected Ridges and Knobs setting.
Hampshire County has 640.4 square miles of land in West Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Hampshire County: Northern Dissected Ridges and Knobs, Northern Shale Valleys, Northern Sandstone Ridges.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hampshire County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Dissected Ridges and Knobs41.9%
- Northern Shale Valleys29.2%
- Northern Sandstone Ridges28.9%
Finding your parcel within Hampshire County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hampshire County, including Green Spring, Springfield, Romney. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hampshire County by land and water
The Census records 4.21 square miles of water within Hampshire County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Hampshire County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hampshire County has 605.9 times the land area of nearby Romney city (1.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Grant County, Hardy County, Mineral County, Morgan County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.