Floyd County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,950 ft 1,205 m3,350 ft 1,020 m3,050 ft 930 m2,440 ft 745 m1,840 ft 560 m1,540 ft 470 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Floyd County averages about 2,590 ft (790 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,540 ft on the northeast side to 3,950 ft on Buffalo Mountain.
Average elevation
2,590 ft 790 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,950 ft 1,205 m
on Buffalo Mountain
Lowest
1,540 ft 470 m
on the northeast side
Floyd County spans about 2,410 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,590 ft790 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Buffalo Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 3,950 ft1,205 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,540 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
14 mi south to north through Floyd.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 15,658 2024 est.
- Land area
- 380.9 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 88%, Atlantic Ocean 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Floyd County2,590 ft
- Carroll County2,470 ft
- Pulaski County2,200 ft
- Montgomery County2,030 ft
- Roanoke County1,740 ft
- Patrick County1,590 ft
- Franklin County1,210 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia6th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States466th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Buffalo Mountain3,950 ft
- Hog Mountain3,570 ft
- Rocky Knob, Floyd County3,550 ft
- Jones Mountain, Floyd County3,540 ft
- Slate Mountain3,510 ft
The one town in Floyd County
- Floyd2,460 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.