Hillsboro, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,360 ft 720 m2,340 ft 715 m2,330 ft 710 m2,310 ft 705 m2,280 ft 695 m2,270 ft 695 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hillsboro sits at about 2,300 ft (700 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,300 ft 700 m
most residents: 2,290–2,320 ft
Lowest
2,270 ft 695 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,360 ft 720 m
at the foot of the Yew Mountains
Average
2,300 ft 705 m
all land inside town limits
Hillsboro spans about 90 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 | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, at the foot of the Yew Mountains | 2,360 ft720 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 2,270 ft695 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hillsboro | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Average of all land | 2,300 ft705 m |
| Nearest peak Black Mountain, 6.2 mi north of the town limits | 4,590 ft1,400 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 225 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 422 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1354° N, 80.2131° 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 1
- 24946
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Warm Springs, VA2,660 ft
- Hot Springs, VA2,460 ft
- Huntersville2,430 ft
- Hillsboro2,300 ft
- Richwood2,230 ft
- Marlinton2,140 ft
- Fenwick2,120 ft
- Falling Spring2,050 ft
- White Sulphur Springs1,880 ft
- Parcoal1,590 ft
- Callaghan, VA1,420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia47th highest of 439
- Towns in Pocahontas County8th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
- Black Mountain4,590 ft
- Briery Knob4,524 ft
- High Top3,640 ft
- Oliver Mountain3,560 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.