Buena Vista, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 435 m1,260 ft 385 m1,180 ft 360 m1,020 ft 310 m860 ft 265 m780 ft 240 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
Buena Vista sits at about 910 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 275 m
most residents: 840–1,070 ft
Lowest
780 ft 240 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,420 ft 435 m
at the foot of the Short Hills
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside city limits
Buena Vista spans about 640 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 | 910 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Short Hills | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 780 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buena Vista | 830 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
| Nearest peak Bluff Mountain, 2.8 mi south of the city limits | 3,360 ft1,025 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 6,581 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,022 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7343° N, 79.3539° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 24416
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Millboro1,730 ft
- Greenville1,690 ft
- Fairfield1,640 ft
- Goshen1,450 ft
- Lexington1,050 ft
- East Lexington1,040 ft
- Buchanan910 ft
- Buena Vista910 ft
- Glasgow750 ft
- Big Island700 ft
- Amherst690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia229th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Pond Mountain4,030 ft
- Big House Mountain3,630 ft
- Big Butt3,430 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,360 ft
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.