Whitby is an unincorporated community and coal town in the Winding Gulf Coalfield of southern West Virginia within Raleigh County, United States.

As of 1927, Whitby was the official name used by the United States Post Office.

[5] Whitby is part of the census-designated place of Coal City.

At its height of coal production in the 1940s, Whitby had a population of 400.

[6] Alexander Halstead[7] was the first settler at Whitby and resided there during the creation of Raleigh County in 1850.