Martinsburg, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m600 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m420 ft 125 m380 ft 115 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
Martinsburg sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 450–540 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the east side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the west side
Average
500 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Martinsburg spans about 290 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Martinsburg | 450 ft135 m |
| Airport (MRB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi south of the city limits | 565 ft172 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft155 m |
| Nearest peak Third Hill Mountain, 9.1 mi west of the city limits | 2,170 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 19,047 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,872 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4562° N, 77.9639° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Eastern Wv Regional/Shepherd Field (MRB) 565 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 25401 25403 25404
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hedgesville640 ft
- Inwood590 ft
- Shenandoah Junction560 ft
- Middleway520 ft
- Martinsburg480 ft
- Downsville, MD480 ft
- Falling Waters460 ft
- Sharpsburg, MD430 ft
- Bakersville, MD430 ft
- Shepherdstown430 ft
- Mercersville, MD390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia436th highest of 439
- Towns in Berkeley County3rd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 350 ft at 39.4482° N, 77.9654° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.