Hillsville, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,850 ft 865 m2,690 ft 820 m2,620 ft 800 m2,470 ft 750 m2,310 ft 705 m2,240 ft 685 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
Hillsville sits at about 2,500 ft (760 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,500 ft 760 m
most residents: 2,400–2,610 ft
Lowest
2,240 ft 685 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,850 ft 865 m
on the east side
Average
2,490 ft 760 m
all land inside town limits
Hillsville spans about 610 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 | 2,500 ft760 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 2,850 ft865 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 2,240 ft685 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hillsville | 2,510 ft765 m |
| Airport (HLX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi west of the town limits | 2,694 ft821 m |
| Average of all land | 2,490 ft760 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Carroll County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,843 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.7 sq mi
- Density
- 292 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.7626° N, 80.7348° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Twin County (HLX) 2,694 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24343
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fancy Gap2,930 ft
- Woodlawn, Carroll County2,600 ft
- Hillsville2,500 ft
- Galax2,470 ft
- Hilltown2,400 ft
- Allisonia2,290 ft
- Fries2,230 ft
- Hiwassee2,170 ft
- Austinville2,130 ft
- Ivanhoe2,080 ft
- Cana1,320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia20th highest of 700
- Towns in Carroll County3rd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Rock4,660 ft
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 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, 2,240 ft at 36.7876° N, 80.7496° 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.