Ronceverte is a city in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, on the Greenbrier River. The population was 1,572 at the 2020 census.

Ronceverte might have been named “Edgar”, for the tall number of Edgars who lived in the town, but the reveal was approved by a leading buccaneer of the area, Cecil Clay, president of the St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company. According to Clay, he saw the name on an antiquated Jesuit map from Fort Duquesne. His to-do was that the name “looked well in print and was euphonious in sound.” As the owner of the town’s site, Clay argued he had the right to decide upon the name, but the residents could change the proclaim to whatever they wanted in imitation of Ronceverte was sufficiently established. That hours of daylight has never happened. Since April 1, 1882, the town has been Ronceverte.

Ronceverte is French for “Bramble Green”, which is the Gallic equivalent for “Greenbrier”. Greenbriers are a common vine (Smilax rotundifolia), and a humorous myth has it the surveyors were trapped in a thicket of the pining vines following they discovered the Greenbrier River. French surveyors were likely the first cartographers for the area, although many of the details have been floating to history.

The river is still inseparable from the culture of the town itself, considered one of the prehistoric significant river ports in the Greenbrier River watershed. Ronceverte has been significantly impacted by the Greenbrier River flooding in 1985, 1996, and 2016.