Glasgow, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,020 ft 310 m970 ft 295 m860 ft 260 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 210 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
Glasgow sits at about 750 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 225 m
most residents: 720–830 ft
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
at the foot of the Short Hills
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside town limits
Glasgow spans about 430 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 | 750 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, at the foot of the Short Hills | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 700 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glasgow | 730 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
| Nearest peak Bluff Mountain, 4.8 mi east of the town limits | 3,360 ft1,025 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,037 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 678 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6340° N, 79.4503° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 24555
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairfield1,640 ft
- Glen Wilton1,090 ft
- Lexington1,050 ft
- Eagle Rock1,050 ft
- East Lexington1,040 ft
- Bedford950 ft
- Buchanan910 ft
- Buena Vista910 ft
- Forest840 ft
- Glasgow750 ft
- Big Island700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia263rd highest of 700
- Towns in Rockbridge Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Apple Orchard Mountain4,222 ft
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain3,610 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,360 ft
- No Business Mountain2,750 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).
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.