Shady Spring, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,050 ft 930 m2,900 ft 885 m2,830 ft 860 m2,670 ft 815 m2,520 ft 770 m2,450 ft 745 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
Shady Spring sits at about 2,760 ft (840 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,760 ft 840 m
most residents: 2,670–2,870 ft
Lowest
2,450 ft 745 m
on the north side
Highest
3,050 ft 930 m
on Shady Spring Mountain
Average
2,740 ft 835 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shady Spring spans about 600 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 | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Shady Spring Mountain | 3,050 ft930 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 2,450 ft745 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shady Spring | 2,700 ft820 m |
| Airport (BKW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi north of the CDP boundary | 2,504 ft763 m |
| Average of all land | 2,740 ft835 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 3,169 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 511 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7057° N, 81.0984° 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 2
- 25832 25918
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia9th highest of 439
- Towns in Raleigh County2nd 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.
- Shady Spring 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.