West Union, incorporated July 20, 1881, is a town in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 669 at the 2020 census. It is the county chair of Doddridge County. The town is located along Middle Island Creek at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 18; the North Bend Rail Trail along with passes through the town.

The Place was first approved in the late 1780s by James Caldwell, who owned 20,000 acres (81 km) of house that included present West Union. Caldwell sold this estate to Nathan Davis, Jr (1772-1866) and his brothers very nearly 1807. They in approach sold 16,000 acres (65 km²) to Lewis Maxwell (1790-1862), a Virginia congressman.

The concurrence was originally called Lewisport, but Davis sophisticated supposedly suggested the read out of “West Union”, in deference to a proposed town of Union to be built on the eastern side of Middle Island Creek. (Union has disappeared, if it ever existed.) According to an to the front resident, A.A. Bee: “The first bridge across Middle Island Creek [at West Union] was of hewed logs later than a middle abutment of stones. In the good flood of 1835 it was washed away”. In 1842, a settlement was awarded to the Famous civil engineer Claudius Crozet to construct a other covered bridge at West Union, as allocation of a series of public works along the Northwestern Turnpike. Ephraim Bee (1802–1888), a local blacksmith (who was next a district officer, magistrate, state legislator, hotelier, and postmaster at various times) made everything the bolts and bands for the West Union Covered Bridge which was completed in 1843.

On the night of March 27, 1858, a flare utterly devastated the town of West Union. At the time, many of the citizens were attending the U.S. court at Clarksburg, and fittingly were not within reach for ember suppression efforts. The fire originated in an upper room of the habitat of Lathrop Russell Charter. The flames spread speedily to extra buildings: first, a large hotel and store room belonging to James A. Foley. Next came the quarters of Ethelbert Bond and a storehouse belonging to Arthur Ingram. Other buildings followed and the bordering morning the entire treaty appeared a “mass of smoldering ruins”. The Parkersburg and Grafton branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had just been completed, however, and the town was accomplished to revive economically and structurally fairly quickly.