Wood County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Wood County, West Virginia, shaded from 560 ft on the southwest side to 1,310 ft on the east side
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,130 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m850 ft 260 m660 ft 200 m560 ft 170 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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County area
Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Wood County averages about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 560 ft on the southwest side to 1,310 ft on the east side.

Average elevation
790 ft 240 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the east side
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the southwest side

Wood County spans about 750 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.

FigureElevation
Average of all land790 ft240 m
Highest point
Inside the county, on the east side
1,310 ft400 m
Lowest point
Inside the county, on the southwest side
560 ft170 m

Elevation profile, west to east

23 mi west to east through Parkersburg.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Wood County, West Virginia, shaded from 560 ft on the southwest side to 1,310 ft on the east side
County boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 40 ft (12 m).
Location
County in West Virginia, United States
Population
82,757 2024 est.
Land area
366.5 sq mi + 10.3 sq mi water
Density
226 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

  1. Ritchie County950 ft
  2. Pleasants County880 ft
  3. Wirt County860 ft
  4. Washington County, OH820 ft
  5. Jackson County810 ft
  6. Athens County, OH810 ft
  7. Wood County790 ft
  8. Meigs County, OH750 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Peaks and hills highest inside

  • Buzzard Rocks, Wood County1,270 ft
  • Buzzard Rocks, Wood County1,110 ft
  • Stephens Knob1,090 ft
  • McKusic Hill1,080 ft
  • Red Hill1,022 ft
All 11 towns in Wood County by typical elevation
  1. North Hills800 ft
  2. Lubeck770 ft
  3. Blennerhassett730 ft
  4. Washington660 ft
  5. Boaz660 ft
  6. Parkersburg650 ft
  7. Vienna650 ft
  8. Mineralwells640 ft
  9. Williamstown640 ft
  10. Kanawha630 ft
  11. Waverly620 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.