Alderson, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,900 ft 580 m1,810 ft 550 m1,760 ft 535 m1,670 ft 510 m1,570 ft 480 m1,530 ft 465 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
Alderson sits at about 1,570 ft (480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,570 ft 480 m
most residents: 1,550–1,650 ft
Lowest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the west side
Highest
1,900 ft 580 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,600 ft 490 m
all land inside town limits
Alderson spans about 370 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 | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,900 ft580 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alderson | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Average of all land | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Nearest peak Keeney Knob, 4.0 mi northwest of the town limits (NGS survey) | 3,927 ft1,197 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Greenbrier and Monroe counties, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 933 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,044 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7260° N, 80.6420° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Greenbrier River → New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24910
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Quinwood3,000 ft
- Meadow Bridge2,440 ft
- Rupert2,420 ft
- Rainelle2,400 ft
- Lewisburg2,200 ft
- Fairlea2,180 ft
- Union2,080 ft
- White Sulphur Springs1,880 ft
- Ronceverte1,790 ft
- Alderson1,570 ft
- Hinton1,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia127th highest of 439
- Towns in Greenbrier Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 ft
- Greenbrier Mountain3,320 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.