Dryden, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,170 ft 660 m1,960 ft 600 m1,860 ft 565 m1,650 ft 505 m1,440 ft 440 m1,340 ft 410 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
Dryden sits at about 1,490 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,490 ft 455 m
most residents: 1,440–1,840 ft
Lowest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,170 ft 660 m
at the foot of the Potato Hill Knobs
Average
1,580 ft 480 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Dryden spans about 830 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 | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Potato Hill Knobs | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dryden | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Average of all land | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Nearest peak Buzzard Roost, 1.2 mi south of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 3,190 ft972 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lee County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 986 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 140 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.7776° N, 82.9416° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Powell River → Clinch River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 24243 24277
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Keokee2,150 ft
- Stickleyville1,820 ft
- Appalachia1,750 ft
- East Stone Gap1,600 ft
- Big Stone Gap1,600 ft
- Benham, KY1,580 ft
- St. Charles1,550 ft
- Dryden1,490 ft
- Jonesville1,490 ft
- Pennington Gap1,450 ft
- Duffield1,390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia125th highest of 700
- Towns in Lee County5th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Chimneytop Mountain3,114 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.
- Dryden 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.