Whitesville is a town and former coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the gigantic Coal River. The population was 361 at the 2020 census. Whitesville was incorporated upon August 15, 1935 by the Boone County Circuit Court. The town derives its reveal from B. W. White, a fortune-hunter settler. Whitesville was formerly known as Jarrold’s Valley and Pritchard City.

Whitesville is located at 37°58′53″N 81°32′03″W / 37.981297°N 81.534055°W / 37.981297; -81.534055 (37.981297, -81.534055). The town occupies a narrow section of house along both sides of the Big Coal River that stretches from the river’s confluence afterward Toms Branch on the south to just north of the river’s confluence later than Seng Creek. West Virginia Route 3 (Coal River Road) traverses Whitesville, connecting the town in the same way as Sylvester to the northwest and the Beckley area to the southeast.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.33 square miles (0.85 km), of which 0.31 square miles (0.80 km²) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km) is water.

As of the census of 2010, there were 514 people, 247 households, and 125 families thriving in the town. The population density was 1,658.1 inhabitants per square mile (640.2/km²). There were 304 housing units at an average density of 980.6 per square mile (378.6/km). The racial makeup of the town was 98.1% White, 0.2% African American, and 1.8% from two or more races.