Breaks, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,970 ft 600 m1,750 ft 535 m1,630 ft 500 m1,410 ft 430 m1,180 ft 360 m1,070 ft 325 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Breaks sits at about 1,570 ft (480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,570 ft 480 m

most residents: 1,470–1,880 ft

Lowest

1,070 ft 325 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,970 ft 600 m

on the northeast side

Average

1,540 ft 470 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Breaks spans about 900 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	1,570 ft480 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side	1,970 ft600 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side	1,070 ft325 m
Town center USGS map point for Breaks	1,480 ft450 m
Average of all land	1,540 ft470 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.0 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Buchanan and Dickenson counties, Virginia, United States
Population: 144 2020 Census
Land area: 1.3 sq mi
Density: 108 per sq mi
Coordinates: 37.2959° N, 82.2810° 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: 24607

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Clintwood1,870 ft
Haysi1,800 ft
Breaks1,570 ft
Vansant1,440 ft
Clinchco1,430 ft
Grundy1,400 ft
Phelps, KY1,150 ft
Virgie, KY980 ft
Big Rock960 ft
Elkhorn City, KY870 ft
Pikeville, KY730 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Virginia114th highest of 700
Towns in Buchanan Countyhighest 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.
Breaks 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.