Farmville is a town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States, eight miles to the west of Greenville.

Farmville is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.

The Town government, in cooperation with other non-profit groups that work for the advancement of the town, sponsor annual events such as the Farmville Dogwood Festival, the Christmas Parade, Independence Day Celebration, A Taste of Farmville, and the Holiday Open House, among others.

Established in February 1872, the town was named Farmville because all of its undertakings and activities were farm related.

He donated sites for churches and was a business leader willing to invest his services and resources towards the success of the town.

The town grew slowly, with the 1880 census showing 111 in Farmville and 79 in Marlborough, a nearby unincorporated settlement along the wooden Historic Plank Road.

Most of buildings in downtown Farmville were built shortly after due to the economic boom the railroad helped begin.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km2), all of it land.