Hedgesville West Virginia Map

About Hedgesville, West Virginia

Hedgesville is a locality in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 300. The population density is 884.2 people per km². Hedgesville is located at 39.5534°N, 77.9950°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Hedgesville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 25427.

Hedgesville occupies a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of the Appalachian interior, where the land rises into wooded folds and descends into shadowed drainage basins. It lies 6.9 miles north-northwest of Martinsburg, WV (from Martinsburg, WV: bearing 346°T), and is situated 5.6 miles west of Falling Waters. Back Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path through the local topography, its waters moving with a deliberate, low-slung energy that shapes the damp earth of the banks. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains frame the horizon, appearing as faint, indigo brushstrokes against the pale sky at dusk. The local climate encourages a heavy, luminous quality of air, particularly in the autumn when the light grows thin and sharp, illuminating the dense hardwoods that define the ridgeline. Near the center of the locality, the 9-11 Memorial provides a modest, solemn space for reflection, grounding the sprawling, irregular geography of the region in a singular, human-scaled point of stillness.

Hedgesville retains the character of an early settlement that grew slowly alongside the shifting demands of the surrounding forest and the seasonal rhythms of inland agriculture. While the economy has long transitioned away from the primary extraction industries that once characterized the wider region, the remnants of that legacy persist in the weathered architecture and the deliberate, unhurried pace of the local markets. Further toward the north, the presence of Big Pool offers a distinct, open expanse of water that serves as a quiet counterpoint to the enclosed, forested density of the hollows and the deeper recesses of Bear Pond Hollow. Life here remains tethered to the land’s capacity for endurance, favoring a steady, inward-looking culture that values the long view over the frantic pace of larger, more frantic industrial hubs. Hedgesville functions as a place where the history of the soil remains visible in the stubborn growth of the timber and the winding, narrow roads that follow the ancient, natural contours of the ground.

About This Hedgesville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hedgesville, West Virginia. Coordinates: 39.55343, -77.994999. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Hedgesville includes the ZIP code (25427), telephone area code (304), county seat of Berkeley County (Martinsburg), and school district assignment (Berkeley County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.