Castlewood, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,330 ft 710 m2,110 ft 645 m2,000 ft 610 m1,780 ft 540 m1,560 ft 475 m1,450 ft 440 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
Castlewood sits at about 1,730 ft (530 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,730 ft 530 m
most residents: 1,620–1,890 ft
Lowest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,330 ft 710 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,750 ft 535 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Castlewood spans about 880 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 | 1,730 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,330 ft710 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Castlewood | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Average of all land | 1,750 ft535 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Russell County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,704 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.2 sq mi
- Density
- 237 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.8901° N, 82.2796° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Clinch River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24224
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia101st highest of 700
- Towns in Russell County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Brumley Mountain4,210 ft
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 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.
- Castlewood 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.