Big Rock, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,630 ft 495 m1,440 ft 440 m1,340 ft 410 m1,150 ft 350 m960 ft 290 m860 ft 260 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 Rock sits at about 960 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 290 m
most residents: 950–980 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Big Rock spans about 770 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 | 960 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Rock | 900 ft275 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Buchanan County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 199 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 431 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3584° N, 82.1874° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Levisa Fork → Big Sandy River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24603
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Haysi1,800 ft
- Breaks1,570 ft
- Vansant1,440 ft
- Clinchco1,430 ft
- Grundy1,400 ft
- Phelps, KY1,150 ft
- Freeburn, KY990 ft
- Big Rock960 ft
- Elkhorn City, KY870 ft
- McCarr, KY780 ft
- Matewan, WV710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia220th highest of 700
- Towns in Buchanan Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Brumley Mountain4,210 ft
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 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 Rock 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.