West Branch is a community in the Local Service District of Weldford Parish located on the West Branch River, 6.12 km SSW of Mundleville, on the road to Ford Bank on Route 470. It had a Post Office 1867-1956 and in 1871 had a population of 200, in 1898 West Branch was a farming and lumbering village with 1 post office, 1 store, 2 churches and a population of 500. Stories about the early settlers to West Branch are recorded in a book called West Branch Days by Eleanor Wilson Graham whose name is also honoured at the local middle school in Rexton where the students from the Weldford area attend school. West Branch was settled by families from Scotland including surnames Morton and Wilson.