Big Island, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m700 ft 215 m630 ft 195 m600 ft 185 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Big Island sits at about 700 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 210 m
most residents: 690–730 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the southeast side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Big Island spans about 270 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 | 700 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Island | 740 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
| Nearest peak No Business Mountain, 3.8 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,750 ft840 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Bedford County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 300 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 365 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5337° N, 79.3598° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 24526
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lexington1,050 ft
- Bedford950 ft
- Buchanan910 ft
- Buena Vista910 ft
- Timberlake900 ft
- Forest840 ft
- Madison Heights780 ft
- Lynchburg760 ft
- Glasgow750 ft
- Big Island700 ft
- Amherst690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia276th highest of 700
- Towns in Bedford Countylowest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Apple Orchard Mountain4,222 ft
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,360 ft
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 ft
- No Business Mountain2,750 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Big Island is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.