Monroe County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,070 ft 1,240 m3,410 ft 1,040 m3,090 ft 940 m2,430 ft 740 m1,780 ft 540 m1,450 ft 440 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
Monroe County averages about 2,310 ft (705 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,450 ft on the southwest side to 4,070 ft on Wrights Peak.
Average elevation
2,310 ft 705 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,070 ft 1,240 m
on Wrights Peak
Lowest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the southwest side
Monroe County spans about 2,620 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 | 2,310 ft705 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Wrights Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,070 ft1,240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,450 ft440 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through Peterstown.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 12,462 2024 est.
- Land area
- 472.8 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 26 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Appalachian Plateaus 57%, Valley and Ridge 43%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 79%, Atlantic Ocean 21%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Greenbrier County2,630 ft
- Giles County, VA2,510 ft
- Monroe County2,310 ft
- Summers County2,200 ft
- Craig County, VA2,190 ft
- Alleghany County, VA2,050 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia8th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States528th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Fork Mountain, Monroe County3,910 ft
- Arnolds Knob3,910 ft
- Hanging Rock, Monroe County3,790 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 ft
All 3 towns in Monroe County by typical elevation
- Union2,080 ft
- Peterstown1,650 ft
- Alderson partly1,570 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.