Bancroft, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m570 ft 175 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
Bancroft sits at about 580 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 175 m
most residents: 580–660 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
on the north side
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside town limits
Bancroft spans about 200 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 | 580 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bancroft | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 372 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 2,676 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5095° N, 81.8399° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 25011
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cross Lanes730 ft
- Teays Valley710 ft
- Institute610 ft
- Eleanor600 ft
- St. Albans600 ft
- Poca600 ft
- Winfield600 ft
- Nitro590 ft
- Raymond City590 ft
- Hometown580 ft
- Bancroft580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia421st highest of 439
- Towns in Putnam County8th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
- Fisher Knob, Kanawha County1,090 ft
- Coal Mountain1,070 ft
- Hickory Knob, Putnam County1,020 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. All public domain.