Abingdon, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

2,310 ft 705 m2,220 ft 675 m2,170 ft 660 m2,080 ft 635 m1,980 ft 605 m1,940 ft 590 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Abingdon sits at about 2,120 ft (645 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

2,120 ft 645 m

most residents: 2,030–2,180 ft

Lowest

1,940 ft 590 m

on the south side

Highest

2,310 ft 705 m

near the middle

Average

2,100 ft 640 m

all land inside town limits

Abingdon spans about 370 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	2,120 ft645 m
Highest point Inside town limits, near the middle	2,310 ft705 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side	1,940 ft590 m
Town center USGS map point for Abingdon	2,080 ft635 m
Airport (VJI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi southwest of the town limits	2,088 ft636 m
Average of all land	2,100 ft640 m
Nearest peak Brumley Mountain, 8.4 mi north of the town limits	4,210 ft1,280 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.5 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Washington County, Virginia, United States
Population: 8,316 2024 est.
Land area: 8.0 sq mi
Density: 1,034 per sq mi
Coordinates: 36.7098° N, 81.9773° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Valley and Ridge
Drains to: South Fork Holston River → Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Virginia Highlands (VJI) 2,088 ft
ZIP codes 2: 24210 24211

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Meadowview2,240 ft
Glade Spring2,160 ft
Emory2,120 ft
Abingdon2,120 ft
Lebanon2,090 ft
Chilhowie2,030 ft
Allison Gap2,030 ft
Damascus1,970 ft
Saltville1,910 ft
Bristol1,810 ft
Bristol, TN1,710 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Virginia52nd highest of 700
Towns in Washington County4th highest of 6

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Mount Rogers5,711 ft
Pond Mountain4,940 ft
Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
Brumley Mountain4,210 ft
Big A Mountain3,705 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,930 ft at 36.6899° N, 81.9790° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.