Hometown, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m930 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m750 ft 225 m630 ft 190 m570 ft 170 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
Hometown sits at about 580 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 180 m
most residents: 580–590 ft
Lowest
570 ft 170 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the southeast side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Hometown spans about 480 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 | 580 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 570 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hometown | 580 ft175 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 556 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 693 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5329° N, 81.8612° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 25109 25168
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cross Lanes730 ft
- Teays Valley710 ft
- Eleanor600 ft
- St. Albans600 ft
- Poca600 ft
- Winfield600 ft
- Nitro590 ft
- Raymond City590 ft
- Hometown580 ft
- Bancroft580 ft
- Buffalo570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia417th highest of 439
- Towns in Putnam County7th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
- Fisher Knob, Kanawha County1,090 ft
- Coal Mountain1,070 ft
- Hickory Knob, Putnam County1,020 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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.
- Hometown 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. All public domain.