Crab Orchard is a census-designated place (CDP) in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.8 km2), all land.

24.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Crab Orchard is famous, historically, as the town in which Senator Robert Byrd organized a chapter for the Ku Klux Klan.

After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the Grand Dragon Joel L. Baskin for the mid-Atlantic states came down to Crab Orchard, to officially organize the chapter... "When it came time to choose the Exalted Cyclops, the top officer in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.