Greenbrier County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,380 ft 1,335 m3,670 ft 1,120 m3,310 ft 1,010 m2,600 ft 790 m1,880 ft 575 m1,520 ft 465 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
Greenbrier County averages about 2,630 ft (805 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,520 ft on the southwest side to 4,380 ft on Grassy Knob.
Average elevation
2,630 ft 805 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,380 ft 1,335 m
on Grassy Knob
Lowest
1,520 ft 465 m
on the southwest side
Greenbrier County spans about 2,860 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 | 2,630 ft805 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Grassy Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,380 ft1,335 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,520 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
40 mi south to north through Lewisburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 31,851 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,019.8 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Appalachian Plateaus 72%, Valley and Ridge 28%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Pocahontas County3,220 ft
- Greenbrier County2,630 ft
- Webster County2,440 ft
- Monroe County2,310 ft
- Bath County, VA2,220 ft
- Summers County2,200 ft
- Nicholas County2,080 ft
- Alleghany County, VA2,050 ft
- Fayette County2,000 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia4th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States459th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Grassy Knob, Greenbrier County4,380 ft
- Job Knob, Greenbrier County4,340 ft
- Cold Knob, Greenbrier County4,310 ft
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Greenbrier Mountain3,320 ft
All 9 towns in Greenbrier County by typical elevation
- Quinwood3,000 ft
- Rupert2,420 ft
- Rainelle2,400 ft
- Lewisburg2,200 ft
- Fairlea2,180 ft
- Falling Spring2,050 ft
- White Sulphur Springs1,880 ft
- Ronceverte1,790 ft
- Alderson1,570 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.