Arthurdale, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,950 ft 595 m1,880 ft 570 m1,840 ft 560 m1,760 ft 535 m1,680 ft 515 m1,640 ft 500 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Arthurdale sits at about 1,720 ft (525 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,720 ft 525 m
most residents: 1,690–1,850 ft
Lowest
1,640 ft 500 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,950 ft 595 m
at the foot of the Briery Mountains
Average
1,770 ft 540 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Arthurdale spans about 310 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 | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Briery Mountains | 1,950 ft595 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Arthurdale | 1,780 ft545 m |
| Airport (MGW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 1,244 ft379 m |
| Average of all land | 1,770 ft540 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Preston County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,143 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 230 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4951° N, 79.8151° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Morgantown Municipal/Walter L Bill Hart Field (MGW) 1,244 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 26520 26547
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tunnelton1,930 ft
- Masontown1,810 ft
- Kingwood1,790 ft
- Reedsville1,740 ft
- Arthurdale1,720 ft
- Newburg1,370 ft
- Albright1,280 ft
- Brookhaven1,250 ft
- Cheat Lake1,210 ft
- Morgantown1,010 ft
- Westover940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia107th highest of 439
- Towns in Preston County8th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spruce Mountain4,863 ft
- Kile Knob4,590 ft
- Job Knob4,460 ft
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- High Knob2,640 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).
- 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.
- Arthurdale 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.