Harrison County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,840 ft 560 m1,600 ft 490 m1,480 ft 450 m1,240 ft 375 m990 ft 305 m870 ft 265 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
Harrison County averages about 1,190 ft (360 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 870 ft on the northeast side to 1,840 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,190 ft 360 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the northeast side
Harrison County spans about 970 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 | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
23 mi south to north through Clarksburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 64,472 2024 est.
- Land area
- 416.0 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 155 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Upshur County1,820 ft
- Barbour County1,690 ft
- Taylor County1,350 ft
- Marion County1,220 ft
- Lewis County1,220 ft
- Harrison County1,190 ft
- Wetzel County1,160 ft
- Doddridge County1,070 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia31st highest of 55
- Counties in the United States1,134th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bald Knob, Harrison County1,552 ft
- Odell Knob1,550 ft
- Pinnickinnick Mountain1,450 ft
- Duncan Hill1,400 ft
All 19 towns in Harrison County by typical elevation
- Reynoldsville1,200 ft
- Wolf Summit1,190 ft
- Salem1,140 ft
- Despard1,110 ft
- Anmoore1,100 ft
- Lost Creek1,070 ft
- Hepzibah1,060 ft
- Bridgeport1,060 ft
- East View1,060 ft
- West Milford1,050 ft
- Wallace1,030 ft
- Stonewood1,020 ft
- Clarksburg1,020 ft
- Nutter Fort1,020 ft
- Spelter990 ft
- Shinnston990 ft
- Lumberport990 ft
- Enterprise960 ft
- Gypsy950 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.