Sutton, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,130 ft 345 m1,070 ft 325 m970 ft 295 m860 ft 265 m810 ft 245 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sutton sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 840–1,010 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the west side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside town limits
Sutton spans about 420 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 810 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sutton | 840 ft255 m |
| Airport (48I) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi northeast of the town limits | 1,276 ft389 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 821 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,057 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6645° N, 80.7098° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Elk River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Braxton County (48I) 1,276 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26601
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tioga2,290 ft
- Cowen2,270 ft
- Camden-on-Gauley2,130 ft
- Addison (Webster Springs)1,480 ft
- Flatwoods1,130 ft
- Birch River1,110 ft
- Sutton980 ft
- Gassaway880 ft
- Glenville810 ft
- Burnsville800 ft
- Sand Fork760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia230th highest of 439
- Towns in Braxton County2nd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
- Black Mountain4,590 ft
- Briery Knob4,524 ft
- Elk Mountain4,429 ft
- Back Fork Mountain4,044 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.