Ritchie County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,210 ft 370 m1,110 ft 340 m910 ft 275 m710 ft 215 m610 ft 185 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ritchie County averages about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 610 ft on the west side to 1,410 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
950 ft 290 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the west side
Ritchie County spans about 800 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Harrisville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 8,170 2024 est.
- Land area
- 452.0 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Doddridge County1,070 ft
- Gilmer County1,020 ft
- Calhoun County990 ft
- Ritchie County950 ft
- Tyler County950 ft
- Pleasants County880 ft
- Wirt County860 ft
- Wood County790 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia41st highest of 55
- Counties in the United States1,491st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- King Knob, Ritchie County1,366 ft
- King Knob, Ritchie County1,266 ft
- Vesper Knoll1,100 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.