Webster County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,020 ft 1,225 m3,250 ft 990 m2,870 ft 875 m2,090 ft 640 m1,320 ft 405 m940 ft 285 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
Webster County averages about 2,440 ft (745 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 940 ft on the northwest side to 4,020 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
2,440 ft 745 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,020 ft 1,225 m
on the south side
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
on the northwest side
Webster County spans about 3,080 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 | 2,440 ft745 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 4,020 ft1,225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
33 mi south to north through Addison (Webster Springs).
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 7,947 2024 est.
- Land area
- 553.5 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 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
- Pocahontas County3,220 ft
- Randolph County2,960 ft
- Greenbrier County2,630 ft
- Webster County2,440 ft
- Nicholas County2,080 ft
- Upshur County1,820 ft
- Lewis County1,220 ft
- Braxton County1,210 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in West Virginia7th highest of 55
- Counties in the United States499th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Snakeden Mountain3,850 ft
- Hanging Rock, Webster County3,830 ft
- Cold Knob, Webster County3,710 ft
- Red Oak Knob3,706 ft
- Redoak Knob3,623 ft
All 5 towns in Webster County by typical elevation
- Cowen2,270 ft
- Camden-on-Gauley2,130 ft
- Bergoo1,840 ft
- Parcoal1,590 ft
- Addison (Webster Springs)1,480 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.