Glen Lyn, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,860 ft 565 m1,770 ft 540 m1,720 ft 525 m1,630 ft 495 m1,530 ft 470 m1,490 ft 455 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Glen Lyn sits at about 1,620 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,620 ft 495 m
most residents: 1,610–1,710 ft
Lowest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the north side
Highest
1,860 ft 565 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,610 ft 490 m
all land inside town limits
Glen Lyn spans about 370 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 | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,860 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glen Lyn | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Average of all land | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Nearest peak Sugar Run Mountain, 8.1 mi south of the town limits (NGS survey) | 4,083 ft1,244 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Giles County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 93 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 152 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3682° N, 80.8642° 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 1
- 24093
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Athens, WV2,560 ft
- Princeton, WV2,450 ft
- Pearisburg1,840 ft
- Ripplemead1,830 ft
- Eggleston1,810 ft
- Oakvale, WV1,790 ft
- Pembroke1,760 ft
- Rich Creek1,710 ft
- Narrows1,660 ft
- Peterstown, WV1,650 ft
- Glen Lyn1,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia110th highest of 700
- Towns in Giles Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Keeney Knob3,927 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 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.