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.

[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.

[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 Grant.

This article about a location in Calhoun County, West Virginia is a stub.