Plum Creek, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,170 ft 660 m2,070 ft 630 m2,020 ft 615 m1,930 ft 585 m1,830 ft 555 m1,780 ft 545 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
Plum Creek sits at about 1,920 ft (585 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,920 ft 585 m
most residents: 1,870–2,080 ft
Lowest
1,780 ft 540 m
on the west side
Highest
2,170 ft 660 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,910 ft 585 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Plum Creek spans about 390 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 | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,780 ft540 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Plum Creek | 1,810 ft555 m |
| Airport (BCB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 2,119 ft646 m |
| Average of all land | 1,910 ft585 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,350 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 870 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1298° N, 80.5006° 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
- Airport
- Virginia Tech/Montgomery Exec (BCB) 2,119 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24073
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Christiansburg2,120 ft
- Merrimac2,100 ft
- Riner2,080 ft
- Snowville2,020 ft
- Belview2,020 ft
- Prices Fork1,960 ft
- Plum Creek1,920 ft
- New River1,920 ft
- Radford1,870 ft
- Fairlawn1,870 ft
- Belspring1,770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia83rd highest of 700
- Towns in Montgomery County7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 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.
- Plum Creek 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.