Bristol, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,150 ft 655 m2,030 ft 620 m1,970 ft 600 m1,850 ft 565 m1,720 ft 525 m1,660 ft 505 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bristol sits at about 1,810 ft (550 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,810 ft 550 m
most residents: 1,720–1,920 ft
Lowest
1,660 ft 505 m
near the middle
Highest
2,150 ft 655 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,830 ft 555 m
all land inside city limits
Bristol spans about 490 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 | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,150 ft655 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bristol | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Airport (TRI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the city limits | 1,519 ft463 m |
| Average of all land | 1,830 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 16,316 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,267 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.5965° N, 82.1885° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tri-Cities (TRI) 1,519 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 24201 24202
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Abingdon2,120 ft
- Bristol1,810 ft
- Bristol, TN1,710 ft
- Walnut Hill, TN1,700 ft
- Biltmore, TN1,660 ft
- Blountville, TN1,650 ft
- Hunter, TN1,630 ft
- Orebank, TN1,530 ft
- Bluff City, TN1,500 ft
- Mendota1,440 ft
- Hiltons1,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia95th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pond Mountain4,940 ft
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- The Bald4,650 ft
- Brumley Mountain4,210 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.