Berwind, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,940 ft 590 m1,820 ft 555 m1,760 ft 535 m1,640 ft 500 m1,520 ft 465 m1,460 ft 445 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
Berwind sits at about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,470–1,560 ft
Lowest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,940 ft 590 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Berwind spans about 480 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Berwind | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 188 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 651 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2687° N, 81.6668° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tug Fork → Big Sandy River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24815
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jewell Ridge, VA2,890 ft
- Abbs Valley, VA2,660 ft
- Amonate, VA1,820 ft
- Cucumber1,560 ft
- Berwind1,500 ft
- Raysal1,480 ft
- Gary1,460 ft
- Welch1,410 ft
- War1,380 ft
- Bartley1,280 ft
- Bradshaw1,200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia134th highest of 439
- Towns in McDowell County10th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 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.
- Berwind 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.