Mercer County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,050 ft 1,235 m3,400 ft 1,035 m3,080 ft 940 m2,430 ft 740 m1,780 ft 545 m1,460 ft 445 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
Mercer County averages about 2,500 ft (765 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,460 ft on the east side to 4,050 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
2,500 ft 765 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,050 ft 1,235 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the east side
Mercer County spans about 2,590 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 | 2,500 ft765 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 4,050 ft1,235 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
19 mi south to north through Bluefield.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 57,524 2024 est.
- Land area
- 419.0 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 137 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Appalachian Plateaus 55%, Valley and Ridge 45%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Tazewell County, VA2,730 ft
- Bland County, VA2,710 ft
- Giles County, VA2,510 ft
- Mercer County2,500 ft
- Raleigh County2,290 ft
- Summers County2,200 ft
- McDowell County1,940 ft
- Wyoming County1,940 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia6th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States488th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Huff Knob3,570 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,510 ft
- Indian Grave Mountain3,440 ft
- Rich Knob, Mercer County3,360 ft
- Black Oak Mountain3,260 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.