Gratton, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,750 ft 1,145 m3,440 ft 1,050 m3,290 ft 1,000 m2,980 ft 905 m2,670 ft 815 m2,510 ft 765 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gratton sits at about 2,820 ft (860 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,820 ft 860 m
most residents: 2,700–2,960 ft
Lowest
2,510 ft 765 m
on the west side
Highest
3,750 ft 1,145 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,930 ft 895 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Gratton spans about 1,240 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 | 2,820 ft860 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,750 ft1,145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 2,510 ft765 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gratton | 2,780 ft850 m |
| Average of all land | 2,930 ft895 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 865 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi
- Density
- 159 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1348° N, 81.4140° 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
- 24651
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Springville2,930 ft
- Gratton2,820 ft
- Abbs Valley2,660 ft
- Boissevain2,580 ft
- Brush Fork, WV2,510 ft
- Bluefield2,500 ft
- Tazewell2,480 ft
- Falls Mills2,410 ft
- Pocahontas2,400 ft
- Amonate1,820 ft
- Anawalt, WV1,700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia8th highest of 700
- Towns in Tazewell County3rd highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Gratton is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.