Huntington, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m870 ft 265 m810 ft 245 m690 ft 210 m580 ft 175 m520 ft 160 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
Huntington sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 550–680 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the west side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the southwest side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside city limits
Huntington spans about 470 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Huntington | 570 ft170 m |
| Airport (HTS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi southwest of the city limits | 828 ft252 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cabell and Wayne counties, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 44,942 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.6 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,701 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4192° N, 82.4452° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tri-State/Milton J Ferguson Field (HTS) 828 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 25701 25702 25703 25704 25705 25755
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lavalette700 ft
- Pea Ridge590 ft
- Union Township, Lawrence County, OH590 ft
- Fayette Township, OH580 ft
- Rome Township, OH570 ft
- Huntington560 ft
- Burlington, OH560 ft
- Chesapeake, OH560 ft
- Ceredo550 ft
- Kenova550 ft
- Proctorville, OH550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia427th highest of 439
- Towns in Cabell Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
- Buck Knob, Wayne County1,170 ft
- Gobbler Knob1,017 ft
- Huddleston Knob1,010 ft
- Poore Hill700 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.