Gassaway, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,570 ft 480 m1,380 ft 420 m1,280 ft 390 m1,090 ft 330 m900 ft 275 m800 ft 245 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gassaway sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 840–1,130 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,570 ft 480 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside town limits
Gassaway spans about 770 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 800 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gassaway | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (48I) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi east of the town limits | 1,276 ft389 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 725 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 628 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6732° N, 80.7748° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Elk River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Braxton County (48I) 1,276 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26624
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tioga2,290 ft
- Cowen2,270 ft
- Camden-on-Gauley2,130 ft
- Flatwoods1,130 ft
- Birch River1,110 ft
- Sutton980 ft
- Gassaway880 ft
- Glenville810 ft
- Burnsville800 ft
- Sand Fork760 ft
- Clay750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia259th highest of 439
- Towns in Braxton County3rd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
- Black Mountain4,590 ft
- Briery Knob4,524 ft
- Elk Mountain4,429 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.