Bigbend, West Virginia

This article is about Big Bend, Calhoun County, West Virginia. For Big Bend, Kanawha County, West Virginia, now known as Upper Falls, see Upper Falls, West Virginia.

Big Bend, West Virginia Brooksville
Unincorporated community
Big Bend Location within the state of West Virginia Show map of West Virginia Big Bend Big Bend (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 38°57′49″N81°9′42″W / 38.96361°N 81.16167°W / 38.96361; -81.16167
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Calhoun
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	26136

Big Bend (shown as Bigbend on federal maps) is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 5 northwest of the town of Grantsville, the county seat of Calhoun County, along the Little Kanawha River. ^[1] Its elevation is 682 feet (208 m). ^[2] It has a post office with the ZIP code 26136. ^[3]

Big Bend was previously known as Brooksville, in honor of Preston Brooks, pro-slavery representative from South Carolina, who attacked and seriously injured Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. At that time it was the county seat. ^[4] At the end of the Civil War, and West Virginia's separation from Virginia, it was replaced by a new county seat with the name of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.

References

1. Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '04. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2004, p. 112.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bigbend, West Virginia
3. USPS – Cities by ZIP Code
4. "(Untitled)". Baltimore Sun . August 16, 1856. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.