Elliston, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,520 ft 460 m1,430 ft 435 m1,390 ft 425 m1,310 ft 400 m1,230 ft 375 m1,190 ft 365 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Elliston sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,280 ft 390 m

most residents: 1,260–1,390 ft

Lowest

1,190 ft 365 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,520 ft 460 m

at the foot of the Pedlar Hills

Average

1,290 ft 390 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Elliston spans about 330 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	1,280 ft390 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Pedlar Hills	1,520 ft460 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side	1,190 ft365 m
Town center USGS map point for Elliston	1,270 ft385 m
Average of all land	1,290 ft390 m
Nearest peak Poor Mountain, 3.6 mi southeast of the CDP boundary	3,920 ft1,195 m

Elevation profile, west to east

0.5 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States
Population: 855 2020 Census
Land area: 1.1 sq mi
Density: 783 per sq mi
Coordinates: 37.2165° N, 80.2325° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Valley and Ridge
Drains to: Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
ZIP codes 1: 24087

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Christiansburg2,120 ft
Merrimac2,100 ft
Blacksburg2,100 ft
Riner2,080 ft
Prices Fork1,960 ft
Shawsville1,460 ft
Elliston1,280 ft
Lafayette1,200 ft
Cave Spring1,180 ft
Glenvar1,130 ft
Salem1,100 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Virginia166th highest of 700
Towns in Montgomery County9th highest of 10

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
Poor Mountain3,920 ft
Cahas Mountain3,562 ft
Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 ft
Catawba Mountain3,180 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.
Elliston 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.