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Moorefield is a town in the South Branch Valley of Hardy County, West Virginia, and the county seat, located at the confluence of the South Branch Potomac River and the South Fork South Branch Potomac River.

Chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in October 1777, Moorefield is the fourth-oldest town in West Virginia.

The town was laid out on 62 acres of land belonging to Conrad Moore, for whom it is named.

When Hardy County was separated from Hampshire County by act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1785, Moorefield was chosen as the county seat.

During the French and Indian War, Fort Buttermilk, erected in 1756, and nearby Fort Pleasant guarded the valley, and soldiers from the forts clashed with Shawnee warriors under Bemino at the Battle of the Trough in the spring of 1756.

On August 7, 1864, Union Brigadier General William W. Averell routed Confederate Brigadier General John McCausland's forces at the Battle of Moorefield, one of the few Union successes of the 1864 Valley Campaigns.

Many of Moorefield's historic houses date to the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Federal and Greek Revival styles, and the Moorefield Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Moorefield is home to Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, which opened in 1999 and serves a six-county region.

The four-lane Corridor H highway, signed as U.S. Route 48, reaches Moorefield and has spurred the town's 21st-century growth; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers levees along the South Fork protect the town from flooding.

The 2020 census counted 2,524 residents in Moorefield, making it the largest town in Hardy County, which had 14,299 residents in 2020.