Matheny, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,540 ft 775 m2,230 ft 680 m2,080 ft 635 m1,770 ft 540 m1,460 ft 445 m1,310 ft 400 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Matheny sits at about 1,580 ft (480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,580 ft 480 m
most residents: 1,350–1,590 ft
Lowest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,540 ft 775 m
on the south side
Average
1,740 ft 530 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Matheny spans about 1,230 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 | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 2,540 ft775 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Matheny | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Airport (I16) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 1,783 ft543 m |
| Average of all land | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Nearest peak Pilot Knob, 8.0 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 3,530 ft1,075 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 446 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.5 sq mi
- Density
- 127 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6648° N, 81.6004° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Guyandotte River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kee Field (I16) 1,783 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24860
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Itmann2,140 ft
- Kopperston2,100 ft
- Bolt2,070 ft
- Glen Fork1,650 ft
- Matheny1,580 ft
- Mullens1,490 ft
- New Richmond1,350 ft
- Pineville1,340 ft
- Davy1,280 ft
- Oceana1,280 ft
- Brenton1,180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia126th highest of 439
- Towns in Wyoming County6th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Matheny is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.