Marion County, West Virginia
Marion County, WV: non-irrigated cash rent $41 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,858 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 54049. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Marion County averages $40 per acre in 2026, up 252.2 percent from 2016. The census value of land and buildings in 2022 stood at $3,858 per acre, with land value up 30.2 percent from 2017 to 2022, or 5.4 percent a year. Irrigation covers 2 percent of harvested cropland as of the 2022 census. July nights have averaged 62.9 F from 2017-2026, against a 1991-2020 normal of 61.6 F, with a warming trend of 0.43 F per decade since 1976. Drought has touched the county in 15 weeks of the 2000-2025 span, all of them falling in the 2021-2025 window, with 2024 the worst year at 15 weeks.
WV median $30 · 9th highest of 30
WV median $3,215 · 15th highest of 47
WV median 20% · 11th lowest of 48
Cash rent
Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.
Land value
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Land value |
|---|---|---|
| Marion County | $41 | $3,858 |
| Harrison County | $19 | $3,496 |
| Monongalia County | $18 | $5,944 |
| Taylor County | $24 | $4,194 |
| Wetzel County | — | $2,290 |
| Median next door | $19 | $3,845 |
Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.
Cite this page
AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Marion County, West Virginia. Figures as of 2026-09-20, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/west-virginia/marion-countyEvery figure is a county average from the sources named below. Ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms, in the same survey year for rent, within the state. Methods: how each figure is built. Downloads: all counties, CSV.
Sources, dates and arithmetic
"Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed; it moves only when a figure on the page does. Source files and their retrieval dates are listed on the data page.
Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields, trend fitted here over every published year since 2008. Loss ratio: claims (indemnity) divided by total premium, USDA RMA Summary of Business, 1989 on, open crop year left out. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, weeks with half the county or more in D2 or worse. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A dash means the record does not carry the figure or the source withheld it; the reason is printed beside it.