Paden City, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 315 m930 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m770 ft 235 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Paden City sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 650–700 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the east side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside city limits
Paden City spans about 440 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paden City | 660 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Wetzel and Tyler counties, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,388 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,823 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6029° N, 80.9368° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 26159
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ohio Township, Monroe County, OH1,060 ft
- Perry Township, Monroe County, OH980 ft
- Jackson Township, Monroe County, OH980 ft
- Benton Township, Monroe County, OH950 ft
- Lee Township, Monroe County, OH770 ft
- Middlebourne740 ft
- Hannibal, OH670 ft
- Sardis, OH660 ft
- Paden City660 ft
- New Martinsville650 ft
- Sistersville650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia352nd highest of 439
- Towns in Wetzel County7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Owlshead, Wetzel County1,460 ft
- Owlshead, Tyler County1,443 ft
- Mount Jacobs1,380 ft
- Buck Knob, Tyler County1,340 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.