Lincoln County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,670 ft 510 m1,390 ft 420 m1,250 ft 380 m960 ft 295 m680 ft 210 m540 ft 165 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lincoln County averages about 930 ft (280 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 540 ft on the northwest side to 1,670 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
930 ft 280 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the northwest side
Lincoln County spans about 1,130 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 930 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
22 mi west to east through Alum Creek.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 19,377 2024 est.
- Land area
- 437.1 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Logan County1,400 ft
- Boone County1,380 ft
- Mingo County1,290 ft
- Kanawha County1,050 ft
- Lincoln County930 ft
- Wayne County870 ft
- Putnam County810 ft
- Cabell County770 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia44th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States1,547th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mann Knob, Lincoln County1,433 ft
- Blue Knob, Lincoln County1,380 ft
- Cove Knob, Lincoln County1,350 ft
- Buck Knob, Lincoln County1,340 ft
- Green Shoals Mountain1,320 ft
All 4 towns in Lincoln County by typical elevation
- Harts930 ft
- Alum Creek830 ft
- Hamlin670 ft
- West Hamlin600 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.