Jimtown is an unincorporated community on U.S. Highway 33 in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.

Jimtown is located in Roaring Creek District of Randolph County on present day County Route 151 (formerly U.S. Route 33), approximately seven miles west of Elkins.

It was named for James Jefferson "Squire Jim" Phillips (1855–1937), a farmer who served as a justice of the peace for Roaring Creek District and whose family owned a majority of the land that now encompasses the community.

Civil War veteran, farmer, and coal miner Moses J. Phillips served as a county Overseer of the Poor from 1872 through 1877.

The oldest known grave is that of War of 1812 veteran Dudley A. Gibson, which dates back to the year of 1873.