Oakvale, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,100 ft 640 m2,000 ft 610 m1,950 ft 595 m1,850 ft 565 m1,750 ft 535 m1,700 ft 520 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Oakvale sits at about 1,790 ft (545 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,790 ft 545 m
few residents
Lowest
1,700 ft 520 m
on the east side
Highest
2,100 ft 640 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,810 ft 555 m
all land inside town limits
Oakvale spans about 400 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,100 ft640 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oakvale | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Average of all land | 1,810 ft555 m |
| Nearest peak Sugar Run Mountain, 8.1 mi southeast of the town limits (NGS survey) | 4,083 ft1,244 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 130 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 311 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3343° N, 80.9626° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24739
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Athens2,560 ft
- Lashmeet2,560 ft
- Princeton2,450 ft
- Mechanicsburg, VA2,360 ft
- Rocky Gap, VA2,010 ft
- Pearisburg, VA1,840 ft
- Oakvale1,790 ft
- Rich Creek, VA1,710 ft
- Narrows, VA1,660 ft
- Peterstown1,650 ft
- Glen Lyn, VA1,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia95th highest of 439
- Towns in Mercer Countylowest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.