West Alexander, PA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,400 ft 430 m1,320 ft 405 m1,280 ft 390 m1,200 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 330 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

West Alexander sits at about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,250 ft 380 m

most residents: 1,180–1,320 ft

Lowest

1,070 ft 325 m

on the east side

Highest

1,400 ft 430 m

on the northwest side

Average

1,250 ft 380 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

West Alexander spans about 330 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	1,250 ft380 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side	1,400 ft430 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side	1,070 ft325 m
Town center USGS map point for West Alexander	1,320 ft405 m
Airport (HLG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary	1,194 ft364 m
Average of all land	1,250 ft380 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.1 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
Population: 565 2020 Census
Land area: 1.2 sq mi
Density: 462 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.1051° N, 80.5078° 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
ZIP codes 1: 15376

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

East Finley Township1,280 ft
West Alexander1,250 ft
West Finley Township1,240 ft
Donegal Township1,220 ft
Claysville1,190 ft
Taylorstown1,190 ft
Blaine Township1,190 ft
West Liberty, WV1,060 ft
Valley Grove, WV990 ft
Bethany, WV910 ft
Triadelphia, WV750 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Pennsylvania959th highest of 3,545
Towns in Washington County5th highest of 103

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Mount Wheeler1,512 ft
Mosier Hill1,500 ft
Sampson Hill1,490 ft
Garrett Hill1,400 ft
Cemetery Hill, Washington County1,330 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,070 ft at 40.1090° N, 80.4929° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.
West Alexander is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.