Cave Spring, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,590 ft 485 m1,490 ft 455 m1,290 ft 395 m1,090 ft 335 m990 ft 305 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
Cave Spring sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,100–1,370 ft
Lowest
990 ft 305 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on Sugarloaf Mountain
Average
1,220 ft 370 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cave Spring spans about 800 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Sugarloaf Mountain | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 990 ft305 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cave Spring | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Airport (ROA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi north of the CDP boundary | 1,175 ft358 m |
| Average of all land | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Nearest peak Cahas Mountain, 5.8 mi south of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 3,562 ft1,086 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Roanoke County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 26,755 2020 Census
- Land area
- 11.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,241 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2276° N, 80.0128° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (ROA) 1,175 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24018
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elliston1,280 ft
- Cloverdale1,270 ft
- Boones Mill1,200 ft
- Lafayette1,200 ft
- Cave Spring1,180 ft
- Glenvar1,130 ft
- Hollins1,110 ft
- Salem1,100 ft
- Vinton1,080 ft
- Stewartsville1,040 ft
- Roanoke1,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia184th highest of 700
- Towns in Roanoke Countyhighest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Cahas Mountain3,562 ft
- Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 ft
- Catawba Mountain3,180 ft
- Foster Knob2,560 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.
- Cave Spring 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.