Wellsburg, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m900 ft 275 m860 ft 260 m770 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m640 ft 195 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
Wellsburg sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 660–740 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the southwest side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the northeast side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
Wellsburg spans about 340 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wellsburg | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (HLG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi south of the city limits | 1,194 ft364 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,280 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,351 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2720° N, 80.6095° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Wheeling Ohio County (HLG) 1,194 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 26070
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Alexandria, OH1,230 ft
- Independence Township, Washington County, PA1,160 ft
- Steubenville Township, OH970 ft
- Mingo Junction, OH970 ft
- Hooverson Heights960 ft
- Bethany910 ft
- Wells Township, OH800 ft
- Follansbee780 ft
- Beech Bottom740 ft
- Brilliant, OH710 ft
- Wellsburg670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia345th highest of 439
- Towns in Brooke Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mechling Hill1,290 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.