Hofshreppur, previously Höfðastrandarhreppur, was a hreppur, an old Icelandic municipality, in Skagafjörður county, Iceland, located on the east side of the main part of the fjord. It was named after the church site Hof in Höfðaströnd.
The old trading post Hofsós was made into its own on January 1, 1948. On June 19, 1990, Hofshreppur and Fellshreppur, located to the north, merged into a single municipality. Hofshreppur then comprised land all the way north to Fljót.
On June 6, 1998, Hofshreppur joined ten other local governments to form Skagafjörður county: Skefilsstaðahreppur, Sauðárkrókur, Skarðshreppur, Staðarhreppur, Seyluhreppur, Lýtingsstaðahreppur, Rípurhreppur, Viðvíkurhreppur, Hólahreppur, and Fljótahreppur.
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