Fairlea, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,350 ft 720 m2,200 ft 670 m2,130 ft 650 m1,980 ft 600 m1,830 ft 555 m1,750 ft 535 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fairlea sits at about 2,180 ft (665 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,180 ft 665 m
most residents: 2,010–2,270 ft
Lowest
1,750 ft 535 m
on the south side
Highest
2,350 ft 720 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,130 ft 650 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fairlea spans about 600 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 | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 2,350 ft720 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairlea | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Airport (LWB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 2,302 ft702 m |
| Average of all land | 2,130 ft650 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,720 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.7 sq mi
- Density
- 460 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7807° N, 80.4570° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Greenbrier River → New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Greenbrier Valley (LWB) 2,302 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 24901 24970
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Meadow Bridge2,440 ft
- Rupert2,420 ft
- Rainelle2,400 ft
- Lewisburg2,200 ft
- Fairlea2,180 ft
- Union2,080 ft
- Falling Spring2,050 ft
- White Sulphur Springs1,880 ft
- Ronceverte1,790 ft
- Alderson1,570 ft
- Callaghan, VA1,420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia58th highest of 439
- Towns in Greenbrier County5th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 ft
- Greenbrier Mountain3,320 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.
- Fairlea 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.