Braxton County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,180 ft 665 m1,820 ft 555 m1,640 ft 500 m1,280 ft 390 m920 ft 280 m730 ft 225 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
Braxton County averages about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 730 ft on the north side to 2,180 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
1,210 ft 370 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,180 ft 665 m
on the south side
Lowest
730 ft 225 m
on the north side
Braxton County spans about 1,450 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 | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 730 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
23 mi south to north through Sutton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 12,051 2024 est.
- Land area
- 510.7 sq mi + 5.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 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
- Webster County2,440 ft
- Nicholas County2,080 ft
- Lewis County1,220 ft
- Braxton County1,210 ft
- Clay County1,190 ft
- Gilmer County1,020 ft
- Calhoun County990 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia29th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States1,103rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Ware Mountain2,020 ft
- Coon Knob, Braxton County1,817 ft
- Sugar Knob, Braxton County1,783 ft
- Fisher Knob, Braxton County1,760 ft
- High Knob, Braxton County1,739 ft
All 4 towns in Braxton County by typical elevation
- Flatwoods1,130 ft
- Sutton980 ft
- Gassaway880 ft
- Burnsville800 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. 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.