Pennsboro, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,260 ft 385 m1,150 ft 350 m1,090 ft 330 m970 ft 295 m860 ft 260 m800 ft 245 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
Pennsboro sits at about 930 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 280 m
most residents: 850–1,100 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the west side
Highest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the south side
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Pennsboro spans about 460 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 | 930 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 800 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pennsboro | 860 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,009 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 374 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2851° N, 80.9684° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Fork Hughes River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 26415
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pullman940 ft
- Pennsboro930 ft
- Harrisville860 ft
- Auburn830 ft
- West Union830 ft
- Ellenboro810 ft
- Cairo780 ft
- Newport Township, OH770 ft
- Middlebourne740 ft
- Newport, OH670 ft
- St. Marys660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia249th highest of 439
- Towns in Ritchie County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 ft
- Owlshead, Tyler County1,443 ft
- King Knob, Ritchie County1,366 ft
- King Knob, Ritchie County1,266 ft
- Vesper Knoll1,100 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, 790 ft at 39.2751° N, 80.9879° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.