Nitro, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m930 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m750 ft 230 m630 ft 190 m570 ft 170 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Nitro sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 580–780 ft
Lowest
570 ft 170 m
near the middle
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the east side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside city limits
Nitro spans about 480 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 570 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nitro | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (CRW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.5 mi east of the city limits | 947 ft289 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kanawha and Putnam counties, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 6,366 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,191 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4148° N, 81.8440° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- West Virginia International Yeager (CRW) 947 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 25064 25143
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cross Lanes730 ft
- Teays Valley710 ft
- Tornado670 ft
- West Dunbar610 ft
- Institute610 ft
- St. Albans600 ft
- Poca600 ft
- Jefferson590 ft
- Nitro590 ft
- Raymond City590 ft
- Bancroft580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia409th highest of 439
- Towns in Kanawha Countylowest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
- Grapevine Knob1,140 ft
- Tyler Mountain1,100 ft
- Coal Mountain1,070 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.