French Creek is an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States.

It is home to the West Virginia State Wildlife Center — formerly the "French Creek Game Farm" — a zoological park featuring native and introduced fauna.

Family names from these settlers include Gould, Young, Phillips, Burr, Sexton, Brooks, Alden and Loomis.

[5] Ralph "Boone" Young lived on Bush Run Road in French Creek, where he once kept bobcats and other wild animals.

He was a trapper and one of the founders of the Game Farm, (now called the West Virginia State Wildlife Center).