Garretts Bend is an unincorporated community on the Trace Fork of the Mud River in northeastern Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.

[2] It lends its name to the United States Geological Survey's "Garretts Bend" Quadrangle.

[i][2][3] Garretts Bend Road (County Highway 5) runs through the village on its route from Griffithsville to Sod, and meets Toney Branch Road (County Highway 58) just above the bend.

[4] A 1909 topographical survey map shows about a dozen structures spread out along the creek and its various tributaries, including a church on the south side of Garretts Bend Road just west of where the highway crosses the Hayzlett Fork.

[ii][3] The Garretts Bend Post Office [5] was established in 1876, and maintained until 1965, when it was discontinued, and the mail redirected to Hamlin.