Van, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,750 ft 535 m1,510 ft 460 m1,390 ft 425 m1,150 ft 350 m910 ft 280 m790 ft 240 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
Van sits at about 980 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 295 m
most residents: 810–1,300 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,750 ft 535 m
on the west side
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Van spans about 960 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 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Van | 840 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Boone County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 177 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 296 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9712° N, 81.7110° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 25206
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Twilight1,270 ft
- Robinette990 ft
- Van980 ft
- Comfort940 ft
- Amherstdale910 ft
- Whitesville820 ft
- Madison790 ft
- Sylvester790 ft
- Greenview750 ft
- Racine720 ft
- Danville700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia232nd highest of 439
- Towns in Boone County2nd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Cross Mountain4,180 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 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.
- Van 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.