Dunbar, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m900 ft 275 m850 ft 260 m730 ft 225 m620 ft 190 m570 ft 170 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dunbar sits at about 600 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 180 m
most residents: 590–920 ft
Lowest
570 ft 170 m
on the west side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the north side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
Dunbar spans about 440 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 | 600 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 570 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dunbar | 600 ft180 m |
| Airport (CRW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi east of the city limits | 947 ft289 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 7,111 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,538 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3607° N, 81.7373° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- West Virginia International Yeager (CRW) 947 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 25064
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Alum Creek830 ft
- Charleston740 ft
- Cross Lanes730 ft
- South Charleston710 ft
- Tornado670 ft
- West Dunbar610 ft
- Institute610 ft
- St. Albans600 ft
- Dunbar600 ft
- Jefferson590 ft
- Nitro590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia403rd highest of 439
- Towns in Kanawha County30th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
- Holmes Knob1,332 ft
- Grapevine Knob1,140 ft
- Tyler Mountain1,100 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.