Craig County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,950 ft 1,205 m3,250 ft 990 m2,890 ft 880 m2,190 ft 665 m1,480 ft 450 m1,120 ft 345 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Craig County averages about 2,190 ft (670 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,120 ft on the northeast side to 3,950 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
2,190 ft 670 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,950 ft 1,205 m
on the west side
Lowest
1,120 ft 345 m
on the northeast side
Craig County spans about 2,830 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,190 ft670 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 3,950 ft1,205 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,120 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
15 mi south to north through New Castle.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 4,829 2024 est.
- Land area
- 328.1 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 83%, Gulf of America 17%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Giles County2,510 ft
- Monroe County, WV2,310 ft
- Craig County2,190 ft
- Alleghany County2,050 ft
- Montgomery County2,030 ft
- Roanoke County1,740 ft
- Botetourt County1,510 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia14th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States559th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hanging Rock3,790 ft
- Kelly Knob3,780 ft
- Wolf Knob3,720 ft
- Sinking Creek Mountain3,670 ft
- Chimney Rock, Craig County3,640 ft
The one town in Craig County
- New Castle1,310 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.