Pickens, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,250 ft 990 m3,070 ft 935 m2,980 ft 910 m2,800 ft 855 m2,620 ft 800 m2,530 ft 770 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pickens sits at about 2,860 ft (875 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
2,860 ft 875 m
few residents
Lowest
2,530 ft 770 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,250 ft 990 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,870 ft 875 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pickens spans about 720 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 | 2,860 ft875 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,250 ft990 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pickens | 2,680 ft820 m |
| Average of all land | 2,870 ft875 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 41 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6551° N, 80.2117° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Buckhannon River → Tygart Valley River → Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 26230
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pickens2,860 ft
- Helvetia2,520 ft
- Valley Head2,400 ft
- Mill Creek2,040 ft
- Huttonsville2,020 ft
- Valley Bend2,000 ft
- Bergoo1,840 ft
- Rock Cave1,720 ft
- Parcoal1,590 ft
- Adrian1,530 ft
- Addison (Webster Springs)1,480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia5th highest of 439
- Towns in Randolph Countyhighest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob4,842 ft
- Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
- Black Mountain4,590 ft
- Elk Mountain4,429 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Pickens is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.