DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in West Virginia, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in West Virginia. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of West Virginia
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Steep, wooded, and hard to see any other way.
Almost all of West Virginia is steep and wooded, which makes ground level photos close to useless. Buyers want the ridge lines, the hollows, the bench where a camp could sit, and the road or right of way that gets there. Old deed descriptions here make the outlined boundary more useful than anywhere.
A tract in Webster County renders in the same ten minutes as a lot in Berkeley County, and ridge, bench, hollow and old grade separate immediately on the contour map.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel. Mature hardwood across the ridge, an old grade in from the hollow, and a small bench near the top.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole West Virginia delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where West Virginia land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any West Virginia county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order a West Virginia parcel.
- Coverage
- Any West Virginia county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Steep hardwood hills and hollows, small farms and pasture on the ridges, mountain acreage, and hunting and recreation tracts.
- Typical uses
- Hunting and recreation, cabin sites, timber, and homesites.
- Reads well from above
- How steep a tract really is, ridges and hollows, creek bottoms, and whether the road is a public road or a right of way.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the district, map and parcel number on the assessment record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting a West Virginia tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling West Virginia ground.
Which West Virginia counties can you do?
Any West Virginia county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Does DirtFlight suit West Virginia hunting, cabin and hill land?
Steep hardwood hills and hollows, small farms and pasture on the ridges, mountain acreage, and hunting and recreation tracts. Typical uses there: hunting and recreation, cabin sites, timber, and homesites.
Will the contour map show how steep it really is?
It will, honestly, which is the point. Ridge, bench and hollow separate clearly, so a buyer can judge whether there is anywhere to put a camp before making the drive. Sellers of steep ground find it helps more than it hurts.
What about a tract with only right of way access?
The access view shows the visible roads and grades reaching the parcel, which is the practical picture. Whether a right of way exists and what it permits is a title question, and we do not answer it.
What is the district, map and parcel number in West Virginia, and what do I enter?
In West Virginia, the number to look for is the district, map and parcel number on the assessment record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What do West Virginia hills and hollows show from above?
How steep a tract really is, ridges and hollows, creek bottoms, and whether the road is a public road or a right of way. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your West Virginia parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.