Wayne County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,550 ft 475 m1,290 ft 395 m1,160 ft 355 m900 ft 275 m650 ft 195 m520 ft 155 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
Wayne County averages about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 520 ft on the northwest side to 1,550 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
870 ft 265 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,550 ft 475 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
520 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Wayne County spans about 1,030 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,550 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 520 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
22 mi south to north through Kenova.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 37,589 2024 est.
- Land area
- 506.0 sq mi + 6.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 74 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Mingo County1,290 ft
- Martin County, KY970 ft
- Lincoln County930 ft
- Wayne County870 ft
- Lawrence County, KY830 ft
- Cabell County770 ft
- Lawrence County, OH760 ft
- Boyd County, KY740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia47th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States1,665th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Kelly Knob, Wayne County1,512 ft
- Moses Fork Mountain1,450 ft
- Bull Mountain1,450 ft
- Cotton Hill, Wayne County1,410 ft
- Porter Knob, Wayne County1,394 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. 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.