Washington, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 180 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Washington sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 620–850 ft
Lowest
580 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Highest
880 ft 265 m
on the northeast side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Washington spans about 300 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 880 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 580 ft180 m |
| Airport (PKB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 859 ft262 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the middle of Washington.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wood County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,151 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 271 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2396° N, 81.6730° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mid-Ohio Valley Regional (PKB) 859 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26181
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lubeck770 ft
- Dunham Township, OH770 ft
- Blennerhassett730 ft
- Troy Township, Athens County, OH730 ft
- Coolville, OH710 ft
- Belpre Township, OH680 ft
- Washington660 ft
- Parkersburg650 ft
- Belpre, OH640 ft
- Hockingport, OH630 ft
- Little Hocking, OH630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia349th highest of 439
- Towns in Wood County4th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Scoby Knob1,020 ft
- Saddle Back Knob990 ft
- College Hill, Wood County980 ft
- Walnut Hill970 ft
- Mount Logan850 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.
- Washington 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.