Thurmond, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,590 ft 485 m1,500 ft 455 m1,310 ft 400 m1,120 ft 340 m1,020 ft 310 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
Thurmond sits at about 1,270 ft (385 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,270 ft 385 m
few residents
Lowest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,310 ft 400 m
all land inside town limits
Thurmond spans about 770 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thurmond | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Airport (BKW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi south of the town limits | 2,504 ft763 m |
| Average of all land | 1,310 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9615° N, 81.0823° 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 1
- 25936
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gatewood2,050 ft
- Oak Hill1,980 ft
- Garten1,930 ft
- Prince1,870 ft
- Fayetteville1,850 ft
- Hilltop1,830 ft
- Scarbro1,750 ft
- Mount Hope1,740 ft
- Cunard1,640 ft
- Glen Jean1,610 ft
- Thurmond1,270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia159th highest of 439
- Towns in Fayette County17th highest of 29
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 median height of all land inside the town limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.