Shinnston, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,260 ft 385 m1,200 ft 365 m1,070 ft 325 m940 ft 285 m880 ft 265 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shinnston sits at about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 300 m
most residents: 920–1,060 ft
Lowest
880 ft 265 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the south side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Shinnston spans about 510 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 880 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shinnston | 930 ft285 m |
| Airport (CKB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,224 ft373 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,258 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,356 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3956° N, 80.3001° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- North Central West Virginia (CKB) 1,224 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26431
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Idamay1,210 ft
- Carolina1,210 ft
- White Hall1,110 ft
- Hepzibah1,060 ft
- Spelter990 ft
- Shinnston990 ft
- Lumberport990 ft
- Monongah970 ft
- Enterprise960 ft
- Gypsy950 ft
- Worthington890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia223rd highest of 439
- Towns in Harrison County16th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Job Knob4,460 ft
- Elk Mountain4,429 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 ft
- Bald Knob, Harrison County1,552 ft
- Odell Knob1,550 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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, 880 ft at 39.4026° N, 80.2829° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.