Bluefield, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,720 ft 1,135 m3,390 ft 1,030 m3,220 ft 980 m2,880 ft 880 m2,540 ft 775 m2,380 ft 725 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bluefield sits at about 2,590 ft (790 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,590 ft 790 m
most residents: 2,480–2,740 ft
Lowest
2,380 ft 725 m
on the east side
Highest
3,720 ft 1,135 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,710 ft 825 m
all land inside city limits
Bluefield spans about 1,340 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 | 2,590 ft790 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 3,720 ft1,135 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bluefield | 2,570 ft785 m |
| Airport (BLF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi northeast of the city limits | 2,857 ft871 m |
| Average of all land | 2,710 ft825 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 9,157 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,020 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2698° N, 81.2223° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mercer County (BLF) 2,857 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24701
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bluewell2,710 ft
- Bluefield2,590 ft
- Boissevain, VA2,580 ft
- Brush Fork2,510 ft
- Bluefield, VA2,500 ft
- Falls Mills, VA2,410 ft
- Pocahontas, VA2,400 ft
- Montcalm2,320 ft
- Bramwell2,310 ft
- Bastian, VA2,210 ft
- Rocky Gap, VA2,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia16th highest of 439
- Towns in Mercer County2nd highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.