Lafayette, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,420 ft 430 m1,380 ft 420 m1,290 ft 395 m1,210 ft 370 m1,170 ft 355 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lafayette sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,190–1,270 ft
Lowest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the east side
Highest
1,500 ft 460 m
at the foot of the Pedlar Hills
Average
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lafayette spans about 340 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Pedlar Hills | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lafayette | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Airport (ROA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,175 ft358 m |
| Average of all land | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Nearest peak Poor Mountain, 3.8 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 3,920 ft1,195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 429 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 673 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2362° N, 80.2114° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (ROA) 1,175 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24087
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Christiansburg2,120 ft
- Merrimac2,100 ft
- Blacksburg2,100 ft
- Prices Fork1,960 ft
- Shawsville1,460 ft
- Elliston1,280 ft
- Lafayette1,200 ft
- Cave Spring1,180 ft
- Glenvar1,130 ft
- Salem1,100 ft
- Roanoke1,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia180th highest of 700
- Towns in Montgomery Countylowest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Cahas Mountain3,562 ft
- Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 ft
- Catawba Mountain3,180 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.
- Lafayette 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.