Helvetia, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,980 ft 910 m2,780 ft 850 m2,690 ft 820 m2,490 ft 760 m2,290 ft 700 m2,200 ft 670 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
Helvetia sits at about 2,520 ft (770 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,520 ft 770 m
few residents
Lowest
2,200 ft 670 m
on the north side
Highest
2,980 ft 910 m
on the east side
Average
2,530 ft 770 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Helvetia spans about 780 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 2,520 ft770 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 2,980 ft910 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 2,200 ft670 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Helvetia | 2,240 ft680 m |
| Average of all land | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Nearest peak Back Fork Mountain, 5.8 mi south of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 4,044 ft1,233 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 38 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7059° N, 80.2012° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Buckhannon River → Tygart Valley River → Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 26224
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pickens2,860 ft
- Helvetia2,520 ft
- Valley Head2,400 ft
- Mill Creek2,040 ft
- Huttonsville2,020 ft
- Valley Bend2,000 ft
- East Dailey1,990 ft
- Bergoo1,840 ft
- Rock Cave1,720 ft
- Hinkleville1,620 ft
- Adrian1,530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia23rd highest of 439
- Towns in Randolph County3rd highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob4,842 ft
- Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
- Black Mountain4,590 ft
- Elk Mountain4,429 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Helvetia 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.