Fincastle, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,430 ft 435 m1,330 ft 405 m1,280 ft 390 m1,180 ft 360 m1,080 ft 330 m1,030 ft 315 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fincastle sits at about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,230 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,180–1,280 ft
Lowest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the north side
Highest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the west side
Average
1,210 ft 370 m
all land inside town limits
Fincastle spans about 400 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 | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fincastle | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Airport (ROA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the town limits | 1,175 ft358 m |
| Average of all land | 1,210 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 823 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 402 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4993° N, 79.8773° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (ROA) 1,175 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24090
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Troutville1,390 ft
- Blue Ridge1,360 ft
- Daleville1,340 ft
- New Castle1,310 ft
- Laymantown1,270 ft
- Cloverdale1,270 ft
- Fincastle1,230 ft
- Hollins1,110 ft
- Eagle Rock1,050 ft
- Montvale1,020 ft
- Buchanan910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia174th highest of 700
- Towns in Botetourt County6th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Apple Orchard Mountain4,222 ft
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain3,610 ft
- Catawba Mountain3,180 ft
- Foster Knob2,560 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.