Barbour County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,150 ft 960 m2,620 ft 800 m2,350 ft 715 m1,820 ft 555 m1,280 ft 390 m1,020 ft 310 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Barbour County averages about 1,690 ft (515 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,020 ft on the west side to 3,150 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,690 ft 515 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,150 ft 960 m
on the east side
Lowest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the west side
Barbour County spans about 2,130 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,150 ft960 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,020 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Philippi.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 15,369 2024 est.
- Land area
- 341.1 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 45 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Randolph County2,960 ft
- Tucker County2,790 ft
- Preston County2,050 ft
- Upshur County1,820 ft
- Barbour County1,690 ft
- Taylor County1,350 ft
- Harrison County1,190 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia19th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States739th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Thorn Knob2,910 ft
- King Knob, Barbour County1,960 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.