Mingo County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,500 ft 765 m2,020 ft 615 m1,780 ft 545 m1,300 ft 395 m820 ft 250 m580 ft 175 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
Mingo County averages about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 580 ft on the northwest side to 2,500 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,500 ft 765 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Mingo County spans about 1,920 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 | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,500 ft765 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Williamson.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 21,712 2024 est.
- Land area
- 423.1 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 51 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
- McDowell County1,940 ft
- Wyoming County1,940 ft
- Buchanan County, VA1,910 ft
- Logan County1,400 ft
- Pike County, KY1,320 ft
- Mingo County1,290 ft
- Martin County, KY970 ft
- Lincoln County930 ft
- Wayne County870 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia25th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States1,011th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Coon Knob, Mingo County2,430 ft
- Glen Alum Mountain2,130 ft
- Ben Creek Mountain1,990 ft
- Pickering Knob1,936 ft
- Buffalo Mountain, Mingo County1,900 ft
All 9 towns in Mingo County by typical elevation
- Gilbert Creek1,490 ft
- Red Jacket950 ft
- Justice900 ft
- Gilbert890 ft
- Delbarton860 ft
- Chattaroy800 ft
- Matewan710 ft
- Williamson690 ft
- Kermit620 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.