Junior is a town in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Tygart Valley River.

[6] At the 2010 census there were 520 people, 197 households, and 147 families living in the town.

There were 233 housing units at an average density of 751.6 per square mile (290.2/km2).

At the 2000 census there were 450 people, 178 households, and 134 families living in the town.

There were 202 housing units at an average density of 678.2 per square mile (260.0/km2).

It was named after the son of Henry Gassaway Davis, Sr, (1823–1916) a U.S.

[9] Henry ("Harry") Gassaway Davis, Jr (1871–1896) had been drowned at sea off the Atlantic Coast of South Africa while returning home on the steamship Munkesenton.