Bluewell, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,010 ft 915 m2,830 ft 865 m2,750 ft 840 m2,580 ft 785 m2,400 ft 735 m2,320 ft 705 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bluewell sits at about 2,710 ft (825 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,710 ft 825 m
most residents: 2,590–2,810 ft
Lowest
2,320 ft 705 m
on the west side
Highest
3,010 ft 915 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,660 ft 810 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bluewell spans about 690 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 | 2,710 ft825 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 3,010 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 2,320 ft705 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bluewell | 2,590 ft790 m |
| Airport (BLF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 2,857 ft871 m |
| Average of all land | 2,660 ft810 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,162 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi
- Density
- 481 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3126° N, 81.2598° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Bluestone River → New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mercer County (BLF) 2,857 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 24701 24737
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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
- Matoaka2,440 ft
- Falls Mills, VA2,410 ft
- Pocahontas, VA2,400 ft
- Montcalm2,320 ft
- Bramwell2,310 ft
- Maybeury2,180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia12th highest of 439
- Towns in Mercer Countyhighest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Pilot Knob3,530 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.
- Bluewell 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.