| Official Name: | Guardian, West Virginia |
| Pushpin Map: | West Virginia#USA |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | West Virginia |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Webster |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 1089 |
| Coordinates: | 38.6361°N -80.4664°W |
| Area Code: | 304 & 681 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 1539778 |
Guardian is an unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia, United States. Guardian is located along the Right Fork Holly River and West Virginia Route 15, 11.4miles north-northwest of Webster Springs.[1]
Guardian had a post office, which closed on February 1, 1988.[2] The community took its name from the local Guardian Coal and Oil Company.[3]
Guardian was previously known as Removal from the 1880s until 1937 when the post office named changed to Guardian. Guardian was also referred to as Middleport in early postal records. The history of the town is exhaustively set out in a two volume book set Removal Reflections: A History of Guardian/Removal, West Virginia, published in 2002 and 2015.[4]