Giles County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,360 ft 1,330 m3,630 ft 1,105 m3,270 ft 995 m2,540 ft 775 m1,810 ft 555 m1,450 ft 440 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
Giles County averages about 2,510 ft (765 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,450 ft on the northwest side to 4,360 ft on Bald Knob.
Average elevation
2,510 ft 765 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,360 ft 1,329 m
on Bald Knob
Lowest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the northwest side
Giles County spans about 2,910 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 | 2,510 ft765 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Bald Knob (NGS survey height) | 4,360 ft1,329 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,450 ft440 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Pearisburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 16,533 2024 est.
- Land area
- 357.2 sq mi + 4.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 92%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Bland County2,710 ft
- Giles County2,510 ft
- Mercer County, WV2,500 ft
- Monroe County, WV2,310 ft
- Summers County, WV2,200 ft
- Pulaski County2,200 ft
- Craig County2,190 ft
- Montgomery County2,030 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia7th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States487th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bald Knob, Giles County4,360 ft
- Butt Mountain4,219 ft
- Wind Rock4,130 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Buckhorn Mountain4,070 ft
All 7 towns in Giles County by typical elevation
- Pearisburg1,840 ft
- Ripplemead1,830 ft
- Eggleston1,810 ft
- Pembroke1,760 ft
- Rich Creek1,710 ft
- Narrows1,660 ft
- Glen Lyn1,620 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.