Christiansburg, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,380 ft 725 m2,250 ft 685 m2,180 ft 665 m2,050 ft 625 m1,920 ft 585 m1,860 ft 565 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Christiansburg sits at about 2,120 ft (645 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,120 ft 645 m
most residents: 2,030–2,200 ft
Lowest
1,860 ft 565 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,380 ft 725 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,110 ft 645 m
all land inside town limits
Christiansburg spans about 520 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 | 2,120 ft645 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 1,860 ft565 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Christiansburg | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Airport (BCB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi north of the town limits | 2,119 ft646 m |
| Average of all land | 2,110 ft645 m |
| Nearest peak Poor Mountain, 8.8 mi east of the town limits | 3,920 ft1,195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 22,632 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,537 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1299° N, 80.4089° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Virginia Tech/Montgomery Exec (BCB) 2,119 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24073
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Christiansburg2,120 ft
- Merrimac2,100 ft
- Blacksburg2,100 ft
- Riner2,080 ft
- Belview2,020 ft
- Prices Fork1,960 ft
- Plum Creek1,920 ft
- New River1,920 ft
- Radford1,870 ft
- Fairlawn1,870 ft
- Shawsville1,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia53rd highest of 700
- Towns in Montgomery Countyhighest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Cahas Mountain3,562 ft
- Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.