Spelter, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,400 ft 425 m1,270 ft 390 m1,210 ft 370 m1,090 ft 335 m970 ft 295 m910 ft 275 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Spelter sits at about 990 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 305 m
most residents: 940–1,050 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,400 ft 425 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Spelter spans about 490 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 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Spelter | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Airport (CKB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 1,224 ft373 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 244 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 493 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3451° N, 80.3179° 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
- 26438
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Despard1,110 ft
- Hepzibah1,060 ft
- Bridgeport1,060 ft
- East View1,060 ft
- Clarksburg1,020 ft
- Nutter Fort1,020 ft
- Spelter990 ft
- Shinnston990 ft
- Lumberport990 ft
- Enterprise960 ft
- Gypsy950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia222nd highest of 439
- Towns in Harrison County15th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spruce Mountain4,863 ft
- Job Knob4,460 ft
- Elk Mountain4,429 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 ft
- Bald Knob, Harrison County1,552 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.
- Spelter 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.