Awards and Honors
- 1963 - Distinguished Service Award, Department of the Interior
- 1972 - Career Service Award from the National Civil Service League
- 1973 - Rockefeller Public Service Award
- 1975 - Honorary Degree - Syracuse University
- 1977 - Special Award for Meritorious Service from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- 1977 - Distinguished Public Service Award from the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
- 1978 - 6,680-foot-high peak in the Thiel Mountains of Antarctica was named for him by the Interior Department's Board on Geographic names
- 1979 - Human Needs Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- Honorary Degree - South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
- There is an annual scientific symposium in his honor, the V.E. McKelvey Forum on Mineral and Energy Resources
- A building on the Menlo Park, California campus of the USGS is named in his honor
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