Gate City, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,300 ft 700 m2,040 ft 620 m1,910 ft 580 m1,650 ft 500 m1,390 ft 425 m1,260 ft 385 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
Gate City sits at about 1,420 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,420 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,330–1,670 ft
Lowest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the east side
Highest
2,300 ft 700 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,530 ft 465 m
all land inside town limits
Gate City spans about 1,040 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 | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gate City | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Airport (TRI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi southeast of the town limits | 1,519 ft463 m |
| Average of all land | 1,530 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Scott County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,019 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 507 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6379° N, 82.5810° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tri-Cities (TRI) 1,519 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24251
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clinchport1,540 ft
- Orebank, TN1,530 ft
- Bloomingdale, TN1,460 ft
- Colonial Heights, TN1,430 ft
- Gate City1,420 ft
- Mount Carmel, TN1,390 ft
- Weber City1,370 ft
- Hiltons1,370 ft
- Kingsport, TN1,330 ft
- Sullivan Gardens, TN1,320 ft
- Church Hill, TN1,320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia138th highest of 700
- Towns in Scott County3rd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Chimneytop Mountain3,114 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 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).
- 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, 1,250 ft at 36.6374° N, 82.5588° 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.
- 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.