Blue Ridge, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,000 ft 610 m1,770 ft 540 m1,650 ft 505 m1,420 ft 435 m1,190 ft 365 m1,080 ft 330 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
Blue Ridge sits at about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,360 ft 415 m
most residents: 1,250–1,470 ft
Lowest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the south side
Highest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,380 ft 420 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Blue Ridge spans about 920 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 | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Blue Ridge | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Airport (ROA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.9 mi west of the CDP boundary | 1,175 ft358 m |
| Average of all land | 1,380 ft420 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 3,185 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.1 sq mi
- Density
- 523 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3785° N, 79.8070° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (ROA) 1,175 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24064
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Troutville1,390 ft
- Blue Ridge1,360 ft
- Daleville1,340 ft
- Laymantown1,270 ft
- Cloverdale1,270 ft
- Fincastle1,230 ft
- Hollins1,110 ft
- Vinton1,080 ft
- Stewartsville1,040 ft
- Roanoke1,040 ft
- Montvale1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia151st highest of 700
- Towns in Botetourt County2nd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Apple Orchard Mountain4,222 ft
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 ft
- Catawba Mountain3,180 ft
- Foster Knob2,560 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.
- Blue Ridge 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.