Hinton, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,150 ft 655 m1,950 ft 595 m1,840 ft 560 m1,640 ft 500 m1,430 ft 435 m1,330 ft 405 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hinton sits at about 1,470 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,470 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,380–1,610 ft
Lowest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the north side
Highest
2,150 ft 655 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,550 ft 475 m
all land inside city limits
Hinton spans about 820 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 | 1,470 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,150 ft655 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hinton | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Airport (BKW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi northwest of the city limits | 2,504 ft763 m |
| Average of all land | 1,550 ft475 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Summers County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,159 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 965 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6740° N, 80.8893° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Raleigh County Memorial (BKW) 2,504 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 25951
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ghent2,960 ft
- Shady Spring2,760 ft
- Meadow Bridge2,440 ft
- Daniels2,370 ft
- Stanaford2,360 ft
- Piney View2,340 ft
- Beaver2,300 ft
- Raleigh2,230 ft
- Prince1,870 ft
- Alderson1,570 ft
- Hinton1,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia140th highest of 439
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.