Piney View, WV Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
2,650 ft 810 m2,290 ft 695 m2,100 ft 640 m1,740 ft 530 m1,370 ft 420 m1,190 ft 360 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
Piney View sits at about 2,340 ft (715 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,340 ft 715 m
most residents: 2,340–2,560 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the east side
Highest
2,650 ft 810 m
on Batoff Mountain
Average
2,160 ft 660 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Piney View spans about 1,460 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 | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Batoff Mountain | 2,650 ft810 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Piney View | 2,340 ft710 m |
| Airport (BKW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,504 ft763 m |
| Average of all land | 2,160 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 902 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- Density
- 223 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8362° N, 81.1348° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Raleigh County Memorial (BKW) 2,504 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 25801
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Prosperity2,440 ft
- Beckley2,380 ft
- Stanaford2,360 ft
- Piney View2,340 ft
- Mabscott2,340 ft
- Sprague2,330 ft
- Beaver2,300 ft
- Raleigh2,230 ft
- Bradley2,230 ft
- Prince1,870 ft
- Mount Hope1,740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia41st highest of 439
- Towns in Raleigh County11th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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.
- Piney View 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.