Norton, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,950 ft 1,205 m3,470 ft 1,055 m3,220 ft 980 m2,730 ft 835 m2,250 ft 685 m2,000 ft 610 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Norton sits at about 2,180 ft (665 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,180 ft 665 m
most residents: 2,100–2,450 ft
Lowest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the west side
Highest
3,950 ft 1,205 m
on the south side
Average
2,530 ft 770 m
all land inside city limits
Norton spans about 1,950 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 | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 3,950 ft1,205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Norton | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Airport (LNP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi northeast of the city limits | 2,685 ft818 m |
| Average of all land | 2,530 ft770 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 3,478 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi
- Density
- 465 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9334° N, 82.6290° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Clinch River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lonesome Pine (LNP) 2,685 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24273
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wise2,520 ft
- The University of Virginia's College at Wise2,520 ft
- Norton2,180 ft
- Stonega2,040 ft
- Coeburn2,040 ft
- Tacoma2,010 ft
- Riverview2,000 ft
- Dunbar1,930 ft
- Appalachia1,750 ft
- East Stone Gap1,600 ft
- Big Stone Gap East1,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia42nd highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (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.
- 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.