Masontown, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,940 ft 590 m1,870 ft 570 m1,840 ft 560 m1,780 ft 540 m1,710 ft 520 m1,680 ft 510 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
Masontown sits at about 1,810 ft (550 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,810 ft 550 m
most residents: 1,790–1,870 ft
Lowest
1,680 ft 510 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,940 ft 590 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,820 ft 555 m
all land inside town limits
Masontown spans about 260 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 | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Masontown | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Airport (MGW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.5 mi northwest of the town limits | 1,244 ft379 m |
| Average of all land | 1,820 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 507 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,824 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5523° N, 79.7978° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Morgantown Municipal/Walter L Bill Hart Field (MGW) 1,244 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26542
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tunnelton1,930 ft
- Masontown1,810 ft
- Kingwood1,790 ft
- Reedsville1,740 ft
- Arthurdale1,720 ft
- Bruceton Mills1,520 ft
- Albright1,280 ft
- Brookhaven1,250 ft
- Cheat Lake1,210 ft
- Morgantown1,010 ft
- Westover940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia93rd highest of 439
- Towns in Preston County4th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spruce Mountain4,863 ft
- Job Knob4,460 ft
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- Cheat View2,220 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.