War, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,340 ft 715 m2,080 ft 635 m1,960 ft 595 m1,700 ft 520 m1,440 ft 440 m1,310 ft 400 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
War sits at about 1,380 ft (420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,380 ft 420 m
most residents: 1,340–1,770 ft
Lowest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the north side
Highest
2,340 ft 715 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,530 ft 465 m
all land inside city limits
War spans about 1,030 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 | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Town center USGS map point for War | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Average of all land | 1,530 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 546 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 613 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3012° N, 81.6909° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tug Fork → Big Sandy River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24892
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jewell Ridge, VA2,890 ft
- Amonate, VA1,820 ft
- Cucumber1,560 ft
- Berwind1,500 ft
- Raysal1,480 ft
- Gary1,460 ft
- Welch1,410 ft
- War1,380 ft
- Bartley1,280 ft
- Bradshaw1,200 ft
- Roderfield1,110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia146th highest of 439
- Towns in McDowell County14th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.