Monongalia County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,560 ft 780 m2,110 ft 645 m1,890 ft 575 m1,450 ft 440 m1,010 ft 305 m780 ft 240 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
Monongalia County averages about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 780 ft on the northeast side to 2,560 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,560 ft 780 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
780 ft 240 m
on the northeast side
Monongalia County spans about 1,780 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 | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,560 ft780 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
31 mi west to east through Morgantown.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 108,697 2024 est.
- Land area
- 360.1 sq mi + 5.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 302 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
- Preston County2,050 ft
- Fayette County, PA1,520 ft
- Taylor County1,350 ft
- Monongalia County1,320 ft
- Marion County1,220 ft
- Greene County, PA1,200 ft
- Wetzel County1,160 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia23rd highest of 55
- Counties in the United States984th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cheat View2,220 ft
- Bald Knob, Monongalia County2,160 ft
- Kincaid Knob, Monongalia County1,900 ft
- Catherines Knob1,710 ft
- Devines Knob1,650 ft
All 11 towns in Monongalia County by typical elevation
- Cassville1,300 ft
- Brookhaven1,250 ft
- Granville1,240 ft
- Cheat Lake1,210 ft
- Booth1,130 ft
- Pentress1,050 ft
- Morgantown1,010 ft
- Blacksville990 ft
- Star City950 ft
- Westover940 ft
- Osage880 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.