Grant County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,140 ft 1,260 m3,320 ft 1,010 m2,900 ft 885 m2,080 ft 635 m1,260 ft 385 m840 ft 255 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
Grant County averages about 2,090 ft (635 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 840 ft on the northeast side to 4,140 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,090 ft 635 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,140 ft 1,260 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the northeast side
Grant County spans about 3,300 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 | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 4,140 ft1,260 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
13 mi west to east through Petersburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 10,971 2024 est.
- Land area
- 477.4 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 23 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 53%, Appalachian Plateaus 47%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Randolph County2,960 ft
- Tucker County2,790 ft
- Pendleton County2,590 ft
- Garrett County, MD2,470 ft
- Grant County2,090 ft
- Preston County2,050 ft
- Hardy County1,750 ft
- Mineral County1,300 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia11th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States593rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Snowy Point4,070 ft
- Pigeonroost3,520 ft
- River Knob3,200 ft
- Bulls Head, Grant County2,760 ft
- Big Mountain, Grant County2,720 ft
All 2 towns in Grant County by typical elevation
- Bayard2,360 ft
- Petersburg970 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.