Dunbar, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,960 ft 595 m1,950 ft 595 m1,940 ft 590 m1,930 ft 590 m1,920 ft 585 m1,920 ft 585 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Dunbar sits at about 1,930 ft (590 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,930 ft 590 m
few residents
Lowest
1,920 ft 585 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,960 ft 595 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,930 ft 590 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Dunbar spans about 40 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,930 ft590 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,960 ft595 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dunbar | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Average of all land | 1,930 ft590 m |
| Nearest peak High Knob, 8.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 4,180 ft1,275 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wise County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 79 2020 Census
- Land area
- under 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3,435 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9740° N, 82.7471° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Powell River → Clinch River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 24216
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wise2,520 ft
- The University of Virginia's College at Wise2,520 ft
- Norton2,180 ft
- Stonega2,040 ft
- Dunbar1,930 ft
- Osaka1,910 ft
- Lynch, KY1,810 ft
- Appalachia1,750 ft
- East Stone Gap1,600 ft
- Big Stone Gap1,600 ft
- Big Stone Gap East1,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia82nd highest of 700
- Towns in Wise County7th highest of 14
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 median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Dunbar 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.