Altavista, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m760 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m630 ft 190 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 155 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Altavista sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 570–730 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the northeast side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the north side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside town limits
Altavista spans about 350 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Altavista | 550 ft170 m |
| Airport (LYH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi north of the town limits | 938 ft286 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Campbell County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 3,332 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 633 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1118° N, 79.2856° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lynchburg Regional/Preston Glenn Field (LYH) 938 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24517
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bedford950 ft
- Moneta920 ft
- Timberlake900 ft
- Gretna860 ft
- North Shore850 ft
- Rustburg850 ft
- Forest840 ft
- Motley810 ft
- Hurt660 ft
- Altavista660 ft
- Brookneal500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia284th highest of 700
- Towns in Campbell County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Apple Orchard Mountain4,222 ft
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 ft
- No Business Mountain2,750 ft
- Foster Knob2,560 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).
- 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.