Bowden, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,350 ft 720 m2,310 ft 705 m2,290 ft 700 m2,250 ft 685 m2,210 ft 675 m2,190 ft 665 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
Bowden sits at about 2,210 ft (675 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,210 ft 675 m
few residents
Lowest
2,190 ft 665 m
on the west side
Highest
2,360 ft 720 m
at the foot of the Backbone Mountain
Average
2,230 ft 680 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bowden spans about 170 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Backbone Mountain | 2,360 ft720 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 2,190 ft665 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bowden | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Airport (EKN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.7 mi west of the CDP boundary | 1,987 ft606 m |
| Average of all land | 2,230 ft680 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 0 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9087° N, 79.7098° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cheat River → Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Elkins/Randolph County (Jennings Randolph Field) (EKN) 1,987 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26241
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia55th highest of 439
- Towns in Randolph County6th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spruce Mountain4,863 ft
- Bald Knob4,842 ft
- Kile Knob4,590 ft
- Job Knob4,460 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Bowden 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.