Auburn, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,080 ft 330 m1,040 ft 315 m950 ft 290 m860 ft 265 m820 ft 250 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
Auburn sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 830–1,020 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the west side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the northwest side
Average
930 ft 280 m
all land inside town limits
Auburn spans about 350 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Auburn | 830 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 76 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 227 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0956° N, 80.8562° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- South Fork Hughes River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 26325
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pullman940 ft
- Pennsboro930 ft
- Harrisville860 ft
- Auburn830 ft
- West Union830 ft
- Glenville810 ft
- Ellenboro810 ft
- Burnsville800 ft
- Cairo780 ft
- Grantsville770 ft
- Sand Fork760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia264th highest of 439
- Towns in Ritchie County4th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Mountain4,429 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 ft
- King Knob, Ritchie County1,366 ft
- King Knob, Ritchie County1,266 ft
- Tank Hill1,130 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.