Boone County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,530 ft 1,075 m2,800 ft 855 m2,440 ft 745 m1,710 ft 520 m980 ft 300 m610 ft 185 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Boone County averages about 1,380 ft (420 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 610 ft on the north side to 3,530 ft on Pilot Knob.
Average elevation
1,380 ft 420 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,530 ft 1,075 m
on Pilot Knob
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the north side
Boone County spans about 2,920 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Pilot Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 3,530 ft1,075 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Madison.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 20,496 2024 est.
- Land area
- 502.4 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Raleigh County2,290 ft
- Wyoming County1,940 ft
- Logan County1,400 ft
- Boone County1,380 ft
- Kanawha County1,050 ft
- Lincoln County930 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia21st highest of 55
- Counties in the United States933rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cherry Pond Mountain2,770 ft
- Cook Mountain2,610 ft
- Bald Knob, Boone County2,370 ft
- Piney Knob1,970 ft
- Workman Knob1,970 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.