Philippi, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,920 ft 585 m1,760 ft 535 m1,680 ft 510 m1,520 ft 465 m1,360 ft 415 m1,280 ft 390 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
Philippi sits at about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,480 ft 450 m
most residents: 1,310–1,560 ft
Lowest
1,280 ft 390 m
near the middle
Highest
1,920 ft 585 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,480 ft 450 m
all land inside city limits
Philippi spans about 640 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 | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Philippi | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Airport (CKB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,224 ft373 m |
| Average of all land | 1,480 ft450 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,845 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,007 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1523° N, 80.0404° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tygart Valley River → Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- North Central West Virginia (CKB) 1,224 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26416
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Montrose2,010 ft
- Junior1,770 ft
- Belington1,730 ft
- Century1,620 ft
- Philippi1,480 ft
- Buckhannon1,430 ft
- Galloway1,360 ft
- Grafton1,120 ft
- Anmoore1,100 ft
- Flemington1,090 ft
- Bridgeport1,060 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia137th highest of 439
- Towns in Barbour County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spruce Mountain4,863 ft
- Kile Knob4,590 ft
- Job Knob4,460 ft
- Elk Mountain4,429 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.