Belva, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 295 m860 ft 260 m740 ft 225 m680 ft 205 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Belva sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
740 ft 225 m
few residents
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the west side
Highest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Belva spans about 470 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 680 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Belva | 690 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 78 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 574 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2312° N, 81.1921° 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
- 26656
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gauley Bridge1,110 ft
- Charlton Heights930 ft
- Dixie770 ft
- Belva740 ft
- Glen Ferris660 ft
- Boomer660 ft
- Falls View660 ft
- Deep Water650 ft
- Montgomery640 ft
- Smithers640 ft
- Mount Carbon640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia304th highest of 439
- Towns in Nicholas Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Briery Knob4,524 ft
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Belva 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.