Appalachia, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,750 ft 840 m2,440 ft 745 m2,280 ft 695 m1,970 ft 600 m1,660 ft 505 m1,500 ft 455 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
Appalachia sits at about 1,750 ft (535 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,750 ft 535 m
most residents: 1,640–2,070 ft
Lowest
1,500 ft 455 m
on the south side
Highest
2,750 ft 840 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,890 ft 575 m
all land inside town limits
Appalachia spans about 1,250 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 | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,750 ft840 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Appalachia | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Average of all land | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Nearest peak Black Mountain, 4.5 mi west of the town limits (NGS survey) | 4,139 ft1,262 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Wise County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,376 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Density
- 400 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9068° N, 82.7818° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Powell River → Clinch River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24216
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Norton2,180 ft
- Keokee2,150 ft
- Stonega2,040 ft
- Dunbar1,930 ft
- Osaka1,910 ft
- Lynch, KY1,810 ft
- Appalachia1,750 ft
- East Stone Gap1,600 ft
- Big Stone Gap1,600 ft
- Benham, KY1,580 ft
- Big Stone Gap East1,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia99th highest of 700
- Towns in Wise County9th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Chimneytop Mountain3,114 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.