Albright, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,430 ft 435 m1,390 ft 420 m1,310 ft 400 m1,230 ft 375 m1,190 ft 360 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Albright sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,280 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,210–1,280 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the north side
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
at the foot of the Briery Mountains
Average
1,280 ft 390 m
all land inside town limits
Albright spans about 320 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 | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, at the foot of the Briery Mountains | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Albright | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Average of all land | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 246 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,060 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4940° N, 79.6428° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cheat River → Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 26519
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Terra Alta2,590 ft
- Hutton, MD2,440 ft
- Crellin, MD2,400 ft
- Tunnelton1,930 ft
- Masontown1,810 ft
- Kingwood1,790 ft
- Reedsville1,740 ft
- Arthurdale1,720 ft
- Bruceton Mills1,520 ft
- Rowlesburg1,400 ft
- Albright1,280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia154th highest of 439
- Towns in Preston Countylowest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spruce Mountain4,863 ft
- Job Knob4,460 ft
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.