Burlington, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m980 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m760 ft 230 m720 ft 220 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
Burlington sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 740–950 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the northwest side
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Burlington spans about 350 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burlington | 740 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
| Nearest peak High Knob, 8.7 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,640 ft805 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 131 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 107 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3376° N, 78.9181° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Patterson Creek → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 26710
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elk Garden2,290 ft
- Danville, MD1,100 ft
- Bloomington, MD1,090 ft
- Westernport, MD1,090 ft
- Luke, MD1,000 ft
- Piedmont980 ft
- Burlington920 ft
- McCoole, MD900 ft
- Dawson, MD880 ft
- Keyser860 ft
- Romney790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia250th highest of 439
- Towns in Mineral County3rd highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mill Mountain3,300 ft
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- High Point2,590 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.
- Burlington 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.