Rainelle, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,000 ft 915 m2,840 ft 865 m2,760 ft 840 m2,610 ft 795 m2,450 ft 745 m2,370 ft 725 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rainelle sits at about 2,400 ft (730 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,400 ft 730 m
most residents: 2,390–2,510 ft
Lowest
2,370 ft 725 m
on the north side
Highest
3,000 ft 915 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,460 ft 750 m
all land inside town limits
Rainelle spans about 630 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 | 2,400 ft730 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,000 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 2,370 ft725 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rainelle | 2,390 ft730 m |
| Average of all land | 2,460 ft750 m |
| Nearest peak Cross Mountain, 8.8 mi east of the town limits | 4,180 ft1,275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,190 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,069 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9687° N, 80.7670° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Meadow River → Gauley River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 25962
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia33rd highest of 439
- Towns in Greenbrier County3rd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Briery Knob4,524 ft
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 ft
- Greenbrier Mountain3,320 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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, 2,370 ft at 37.9751° N, 80.7604° 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.