Editing Barbour County, West Virginia (section)

==Economy==
Major employment in Barbour County is provided by health care and social service sectors, retail, education, accommodation and food services, logging and wood product manufacturing, trucking and construction. The largest employers are Alderson Broaddus University and Broaddus Hospital.

[[Bituminous coal]] mining has been significant in Barbour; seven times as much tonnage has been produced from underground as by [[surface mining]]. Natural gas and oil wells provide a modest amount of employment. Wholesale [[lumber]] production (wood and wood products) is also present. (The county is a member of the West Virginia Hardwood Alliance Zone.) There is notable production of eggs and horse raising, but the major agricultural products are livestock, forage, dairy foods and orchard fruits.