Whitesville, WV

Whitesville is a town and former coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Big Coal River. The 2020 census counted 361 residents. Whitesville was incorporated on August 15, 1935, by the Boone County Circuit Court. The town derives its name from B. Whitesville's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider West Virginia setting. The local scoop is how Whitesville's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The town occupies a narrow section of land along both sides of the Big Coal River that stretches from the river's confluence with Toms Branch on the south to just north of the river's confluence with Seng Creek. West Virginia Route 3 traverses Whitesville, connecting the town with Sylvester to the northwest and the Beckley area to the southeast.