Lester, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,330 ft 710 m2,250 ft 685 m2,200 ft 670 m2,120 ft 645 m2,030 ft 620 m1,990 ft 605 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
Lester sits at about 2,050 ft (625 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,050 ft 625 m
most residents: 2,030–2,190 ft
Lowest
1,990 ft 605 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,330 ft 710 m
on the east side
Average
2,080 ft 635 m
all land inside town limits
Lester spans about 340 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 | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 2,330 ft710 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lester | 2,030 ft620 m |
| Airport (BKW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi east of the town limits | 2,504 ft763 m |
| Average of all land | 2,080 ft635 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 333 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 665 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7348° N, 81.2995° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Big Coal River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Raleigh County Memorial (BKW) 2,504 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 25865
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Coal City2,540 ft
- Crab Orchard2,430 ft
- MacArthur2,430 ft
- Sophia2,380 ft
- Beckley2,380 ft
- Mabscott2,340 ft
- Eccles2,210 ft
- Glen White2,160 ft
- Bolt2,070 ft
- Lester2,050 ft
- Helen1,640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia73rd highest of 439
- Towns in Raleigh County20th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.