Fort Chiswell, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,830 ft 865 m2,610 ft 795 m2,500 ft 765 m2,290 ft 695 m2,070 ft 630 m1,960 ft 595 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
Fort Chiswell sits at about 2,170 ft (660 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,170 ft 660 m
most residents: 2,120–2,440 ft
Lowest
1,960 ft 595 m
on the east side
Highest
2,830 ft 865 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,170 ft 660 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fort Chiswell spans about 870 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 | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,830 ft865 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,960 ft595 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fort Chiswell | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Average of all land | 2,170 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wythe County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 876 2020 Census
- Land area
- 13.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 65 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9471° N, 80.9415° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 24360 24382
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bland2,480 ft
- Mechanicsburg2,360 ft
- Wytheville2,350 ft
- Allisonia2,290 ft
- Fort Chiswell2,170 ft
- Hiwassee2,170 ft
- Austinville2,130 ft
- Max Meadows2,120 ft
- Draper2,110 ft
- Ivanhoe2,080 ft
- Pulaski2,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia44th highest of 700
- Towns in Wythe County3rd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Rock4,660 ft
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 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.
- Fort Chiswell 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.