Hurricane, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m910 ft 280 m860 ft 265 m760 ft 230 m660 ft 200 m610 ft 185 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
Hurricane sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 640–720 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the south side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside city limits
Hurricane spans about 400 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hurricane | 700 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 6,813 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,669 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4326° N, 82.0201° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 25526
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Teays Valley710 ft
- Culloden700 ft
- Hurricane690 ft
- Tornado670 ft
- Milton610 ft
- Eleanor600 ft
- St. Albans600 ft
- Winfield600 ft
- Nitro590 ft
- Hometown580 ft
- Bancroft580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia332nd highest of 439
- Towns in Putnam County2nd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
- Signal Knob1,090 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 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.