Galax, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,870 ft 875 m2,720 ft 830 m2,650 ft 810 m2,500 ft 765 m2,360 ft 720 m2,280 ft 695 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Galax sits at about 2,470 ft (755 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,470 ft 755 m
most residents: 2,390–2,560 ft
Lowest
2,280 ft 695 m
on the north side
Highest
2,870 ft 875 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,490 ft 760 m
all land inside city limits
Galax spans about 590 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 | 2,470 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,870 ft875 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,280 ft695 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Galax | 2,370 ft720 m |
| Airport (HLX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi northeast of the city limits | 2,694 ft821 m |
| Average of all land | 2,490 ft760 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 6,739 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.2 sq mi
- Density
- 818 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6612° N, 80.9240° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Twin County (HLX) 2,694 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24333
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fancy Gap2,930 ft
- Independence2,680 ft
- Woodlawn, Carroll County2,600 ft
- Baywood2,570 ft
- Hillsville2,500 ft
- Galax2,470 ft
- Stevens Creek2,450 ft
- Hilltown2,400 ft
- Fries2,230 ft
- Ivanhoe2,080 ft
- Lowgap, NC1,380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia23rd highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Phoenix Mountain4,718 ft
- High Rock4,660 ft
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.