Parkersburg, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 180 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Parkersburg sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 620–710 ft
Lowest
580 ft 180 m
on the east side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the northeast side
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside city limits
Parkersburg spans about 290 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 580 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Parkersburg | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (PKB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi northeast of the city limits | 859 ft262 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Wood County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 28,834 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.8 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,447 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2667° N, 81.5615° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mid-Ohio Valley Regional (PKB) 859 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 26101 26104
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North Hills800 ft
- Lubeck770 ft
- Dunham Township, OH770 ft
- Blennerhassett730 ft
- Belpre Township, OH680 ft
- Washington660 ft
- Parkersburg650 ft
- Vienna650 ft
- Belpre, OH640 ft
- Mineralwells640 ft
- Kanawha630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia356th highest of 439
- Towns in Wood County6th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- McKusic Hill1,080 ft
- Red Hill1,022 ft
- Scoby Knob1,020 ft
- Butcher Hill930 ft
- Mount Logan850 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 580 ft at 39.2549° N, 81.5590° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.