Lee County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,780 ft 1,150 m3,120 ft 950 m2,790 ft 850 m2,140 ft 650 m1,480 ft 455 m1,160 ft 355 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lee County averages about 1,760 ft (535 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,160 ft on the southeast side to 3,780 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,760 ft 535 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,780 ft 1,150 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the southeast side
Lee County spans about 2,620 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 3,780 ft1,150 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through Pennington Gap.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 21,780 2024 est.
- Land area
- 435.4 sq mi + 1.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 50 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge 97%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wise County2,320 ft
- Harlan County, KY2,140 ft
- Scott County1,830 ft
- Lee County1,760 ft
- Bell County, KY1,690 ft
- Hancock County, TN1,540 ft
- Claiborne County, TN1,490 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia22nd highest of 94
- Counties in the United States702nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Stone Mountain, Lee County3,130 ft
- Eliza Knob2,940 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 ft
All 8 towns in Lee County by typical elevation
- Keokee2,150 ft
- Stickleyville1,820 ft
- Ewing1,550 ft
- St. Charles1,550 ft
- Dryden1,490 ft
- Jonesville1,490 ft
- Pennington Gap1,450 ft
- Rose Hill, Lee County1,440 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 1,140 ft at 36.6168° N, 83.5715° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.