Wells Township, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,140 ft 350 m1,060 ft 325 m890 ft 270 m730 ft 220 m640 ft 195 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wells Township sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 690–1,210 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the east side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,060 ft 320 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wells Township spans about 670 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (HLG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,194 ft364 m |
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.4 mi west to east through the middle of Wells Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 2,388 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 89 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2669° N, 80.6786° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Wheeling Ohio County (HLG) 1,194 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Alexandria1,230 ft
- Smithfield Township1,100 ft
- Windsor Heights, WV1,000 ft
- Steubenville Township970 ft
- Mingo Junction970 ft
- Wells Township800 ft
- Beech Bottom, WV740 ft
- Brilliant710 ft
- Connorville690 ft
- Rayland680 ft
- Wellsburg, WV670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio1,787th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Jefferson County23rd highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Clark Hill1,350 ft
- Norton Hill1,280 ft
- Myers Knob1,210 ft
- Taylors Hill1,110 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.