Green Bank, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,800 ft 855 m2,740 ft 835 m2,710 ft 825 m2,650 ft 810 m2,590 ft 790 m2,560 ft 780 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
Green Bank sits at about 2,670 ft (815 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,670 ft 815 m
most residents: 2,610–2,780 ft
Lowest
2,560 ft 780 m
on the west side
Highest
2,800 ft 855 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,660 ft 810 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Green Bank spans about 240 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 | 2,670 ft815 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 2,560 ft780 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Green Bank | 2,670 ft815 m |
| Average of all land | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Nearest peak Bald Knob, 4.3 mi west of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 4,842 ft1,476 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 141 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4201° N, 79.8314° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Greenbrier River → New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 24915 24944
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Monterey, VA2,910 ft
- Durbin2,780 ft
- Bartow2,770 ft
- Frank2,740 ft
- Arbovale2,730 ft
- Green Bank2,670 ft
- Cass2,590 ft
- Huntersville2,430 ft
- Valley Head2,400 ft
- McDowell, VA2,140 ft
- Marlinton2,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia15th highest of 439
- Towns in Pocahontas County5th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob4,842 ft
- Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
- Paddy Knob4,476 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 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.
- Green Bank 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.