Valley Head, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,270 ft 995 m3,040 ft 925 m2,920 ft 890 m2,680 ft 820 m2,450 ft 745 m2,330 ft 710 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
Valley Head sits at about 2,400 ft (730 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,400 ft 730 m
most residents: 2,350–2,650 ft
Lowest
2,330 ft 710 m
on the north side
Highest
3,270 ft 995 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,600 ft 795 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Valley Head spans about 940 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 | 2,400 ft730 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,270 ft995 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 2,330 ft710 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Valley Head | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Average of all land | 2,600 ft795 m |
| Nearest peak Elk Mountain, 4.0 mi southwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 4,429 ft1,350 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 207 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 212 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5451° N, 80.0359° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tygart Valley River → Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 26294
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pickens2,860 ft
- Durbin2,780 ft
- Bartow2,770 ft
- Frank2,740 ft
- Arbovale2,730 ft
- Green Bank2,670 ft
- Cass2,590 ft
- Helvetia2,520 ft
- Valley Head2,400 ft
- Mill Creek2,040 ft
- Huttonsville2,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia34th highest of 439
- Towns in Randolph County4th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob4,842 ft
- Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
- Paddy Knob4,476 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 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.
- Valley Head 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.