Marion County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,990 ft 605 m1,710 ft 520 m1,570 ft 475 m1,280 ft 390 m1,000 ft 305 m860 ft 260 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
Marion County averages about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 860 ft on the east side to 1,990 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,990 ft 605 m
on the east side
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the east side
Marion 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Fairmont.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 55,649 2024 est.
- Land area
- 308.8 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 180 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
- Taylor County1,350 ft
- Monongalia County1,320 ft
- Marion County1,220 ft
- Harrison County1,190 ft
- Wetzel County1,160 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia27th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States1,091st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Kincaid Knob, Marion County1,790 ft
All 15 towns in Marion County by typical elevation
- Idamay1,210 ft
- Carolina1,210 ft
- White Hall1,110 ft
- Pleasant Valley1,090 ft
- Rachel1,060 ft
- Grant Town1,050 ft
- Fairview1,040 ft
- Baxter1,010 ft
- Fairmont1,010 ft
- Mannington1,010 ft
- Farmington990 ft
- Monongah970 ft
- Barrackville970 ft
- Rivesville960 ft
- Worthington890 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.