Tucker County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,450 ft 1,355 m3,700 ft 1,130 m3,330 ft 1,015 m2,580 ft 785 m1,830 ft 560 m1,460 ft 445 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tucker County averages about 2,790 ft (850 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,460 ft on the northwest side to 4,450 ft on Weiss Knob.
Average elevation
2,790 ft 850 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,450 ft 1,355 m
on Weiss Knob
Lowest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the northwest side
Tucker County spans about 2,990 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Weiss Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,450 ft1,355 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Parsons.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 6,573 2024 est.
- Land area
- 419.0 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 16 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus 94%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Randolph County2,960 ft
- Tucker County2,790 ft
- Grant County2,090 ft
- Preston County2,050 ft
- Barbour County1,690 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia3rd highest of 55
- Counties in the United States421st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Weiss Knob4,450 ft
- Cabin Mountain4,370 ft
- Canaan Mountain4,143 ft
- Chimney Rock4,130 ft
- Blackbird Knob3,950 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.