Hiwassee, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,990 ft 910 m2,700 ft 825 m2,560 ft 780 m2,270 ft 695 m1,990 ft 605 m1,840 ft 560 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
Hiwassee sits at about 2,170 ft (660 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,170 ft 660 m
most residents: 2,020–2,530 ft
Lowest
1,840 ft 560 m
near the middle
Highest
2,990 ft 910 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,250 ft 685 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Hiwassee spans about 1,150 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 | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,990 ft910 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hiwassee | 2,090 ft640 m |
| Average of all land | 2,250 ft685 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pulaski County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 212 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9687° N, 80.7137° 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
- 24347
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Allisonia2,290 ft
- Fort Chiswell2,170 ft
- Hiwassee2,170 ft
- Austinville2,130 ft
- Dublin2,120 ft
- Max Meadows2,120 ft
- Draper2,110 ft
- Snowville2,020 ft
- Pulaski2,010 ft
- New River1,920 ft
- Radford1,870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia45th highest of 700
- Towns in Pulaski County2nd highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 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.
- Hiwassee 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.