Summersville, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,200 ft 670 m2,060 ft 630 m1,990 ft 610 m1,850 ft 565 m1,710 ft 525 m1,640 ft 500 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
Summersville sits at about 1,920 ft (585 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,920 ft 585 m
most residents: 1,880–1,980 ft
Lowest
1,640 ft 500 m
on the south side
Highest
2,200 ft 670 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,910 ft 580 m
all land inside city limits
Summersville spans about 560 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 | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,200 ft670 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Summersville | 1,880 ft570 m |
| Airport (SXL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi south of the city limits | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Average of all land | 1,910 ft580 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 3,326 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi
- Density
- 741 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2812° N, 80.8526° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gauley River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Summersville (SXL) 1,820 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26651
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Quinwood3,000 ft
- Nettie2,690 ft
- Craigsville2,300 ft
- Tioga2,290 ft
- Camden-on-Gauley2,130 ft
- Hico2,130 ft
- Fenwick2,120 ft
- Summersville1,920 ft
- Ansted1,340 ft
- Birch River1,110 ft
- Clay750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia86th highest of 439
- Towns in Nicholas County6th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
- Black Mountain4,590 ft
- Briery Knob4,524 ft
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 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).
- 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.