Big Creek, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,070 ft 325 m990 ft 305 m840 ft 255 m690 ft 210 m610 ft 185 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
Big Creek sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 630–790 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
near the middle
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the northwest side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Big Creek spans about 610 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Creek | 630 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Logan County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 195 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 336 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0043° N, 82.0401° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Guyandotte River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 25505
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Gay-Shamrock1,040 ft
- Henlawson940 ft
- Harts930 ft
- Mitchell Heights930 ft
- Crooked Creek890 ft
- Big Creek780 ft
- Logan680 ft
- Peach Creek680 ft
- West Logan680 ft
- Justice Addition670 ft
- Chapmanville650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia285th highest of 439
- Towns in Logan County16th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
- Piney Knob1,970 ft
- Godby Knob1,710 ft
- Green Shoals Mountain1,320 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 610 ft at 38.0057° N, 82.0379° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Big Creek 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. All public domain.