Blacksburg, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,740 ft 835 m2,510 ft 765 m2,390 ft 730 m2,150 ft 655 m1,920 ft 585 m1,800 ft 550 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Blacksburg sits at about 2,100 ft (640 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,100 ft 640 m
most residents: 2,040–2,190 ft
Lowest
1,800 ft 550 m
on the east side
Highest
2,740 ft 835 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,090 ft 635 m
all land inside town limits
Blacksburg spans about 940 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 | 2,100 ft640 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 2,740 ft835 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Blacksburg | 2,080 ft635 m |
| Airport (BCB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,119 ft646 m |
| Average of all land | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Nearest peak Salt Pond Mountain, 7.6 mi northwest of the town limits | 4,330 ft1,320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 45,452 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,296 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2296° N, 80.4139° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Virginia Tech/Montgomery Exec (BCB) 2,119 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 24060 24061
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Christiansburg2,120 ft
- Merrimac2,100 ft
- Blacksburg2,100 ft
- Belview2,020 ft
- Prices Fork1,960 ft
- Plum Creek1,920 ft
- Fairlawn1,870 ft
- Belspring1,770 ft
- Shawsville1,460 ft
- Elliston1,280 ft
- Lafayette1,200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia58th highest of 700
- Towns in Montgomery County3rd highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 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.