Low Moor, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,720 ft 525 m1,560 ft 475 m1,480 ft 450 m1,320 ft 400 m1,150 ft 350 m1,070 ft 325 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
Low Moor sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,130–1,430 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,720 ft 525 m
at the foot of the Little Mountain
Average
1,250 ft 380 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Low Moor spans about 650 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Little Mountain | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Low Moor | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Average of all land | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Nearest peak Big Knob, 4.5 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 4,050 ft1,235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 402 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 356 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7887° N, 79.8837° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 24457
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hot Springs2,460 ft
- Callaghan1,420 ft
- Covington1,290 ft
- Mallow1,220 ft
- Clifton Forge1,210 ft
- Selma1,210 ft
- Low Moor1,180 ft
- Glen Wilton1,090 ft
- Cliftondale Park1,090 ft
- Eagle Rock1,050 ft
- Iron Gate1,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia185th highest of 700
- Towns in Alleghany County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob4,240 ft
- Big Knob4,050 ft
- Brushy Mountain3,560 ft
- Oliver Mountain3,560 ft
- Lick Mountain2,920 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).
- 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, 1,070 ft at 37.8062° N, 79.8535° 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.
- Low Moor 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. All public domain.