Cana, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,720 ft 525 m1,570 ft 480 m1,490 ft 455 m1,340 ft 405 m1,180 ft 360 m1,100 ft 335 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
Cana sits at about 1,320 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 405 m
most residents: 1,250–1,510 ft
Lowest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,720 ft 525 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cana spans about 620 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 | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cana | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Carroll County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,243 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.9 sq mi
- Density
- 157 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.5896° N, 80.6717° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Ararat River → Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 24317
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fancy Gap2,930 ft
- Woodlawn, Carroll County2,600 ft
- Hillsville2,500 ft
- Galax2,470 ft
- Lowgap, NC1,380 ft
- Cana1,320 ft
- Dobson, NC1,200 ft
- White Plains, NC1,140 ft
- Flat Rock, Surry County, NC1,110 ft
- Mount Airy, NC1,080 ft
- Toast, NC1,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia159th highest of 700
- Towns in Carroll Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Rock4,660 ft
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 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.
- Cana 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.