Ferrum, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,180 ft 665 m1,930 ft 585 m1,800 ft 550 m1,540 ft 470 m1,280 ft 390 m1,150 ft 350 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
Ferrum sits at about 1,380 ft (420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,380 ft 420 m
most residents: 1,290–1,490 ft
Lowest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,180 ft 665 m
on Cooks Knob
Average
1,400 ft 425 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ferrum spans about 1,030 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 | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Cooks Knob | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ferrum | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Average of all land | 1,400 ft425 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,827 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.1 sq mi
- Density
- 200 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9229° N, 80.0134° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Pigg River → Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 24088
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Floyd2,460 ft
- Ferrum1,380 ft
- Boones Mill1,200 ft
- Oak Level1,150 ft
- Henry Fork1,140 ft
- Rocky Mount1,130 ft
- Collinsville900 ft
- Stanleytown850 ft
- Fieldale840 ft
- Bassett840 ft
- Villa Heights800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia145th highest of 700
- Towns in Franklin Countyhighest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Cahas Mountain3,562 ft
- Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,150 ft at 36.9365° N, 79.9729° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Ferrum 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.