Bradshaw, WV Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
2,120 ft 645 m1,880 ft 570 m1,760 ft 535 m1,510 ft 460 m1,260 ft 385 m1,140 ft 350 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bradshaw sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,170–1,690 ft
Lowest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the north side
Highest
2,120 ft 645 m
on the west side
Average
1,420 ft 430 m
all land inside town limits
Bradshaw spans about 980 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 2,120 ft645 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bradshaw | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Average of all land | 1,420 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 182 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 235 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3518° N, 81.7987° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tug Fork → Big Sandy River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24817
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jewell Ridge, VA2,890 ft
- Cucumber1,560 ft
- Berwind1,500 ft
- Raysal1,480 ft
- War1,380 ft
- Davy1,280 ft
- Bartley1,280 ft
- Bradshaw1,200 ft
- Big Sandy1,160 ft
- Roderfield1,110 ft
- Iaeger1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia168th highest of 439
- Towns in McDowell County17th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.