Radford, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,340 ft 715 m2,180 ft 665 m2,100 ft 640 m1,940 ft 595 m1,790 ft 545 m1,710 ft 520 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
Radford sits at about 1,870 ft (570 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,870 ft 570 m
most residents: 1,810–1,990 ft
Lowest
1,710 ft 520 m
on the east side
Highest
2,340 ft 715 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,900 ft 580 m
all land inside city limits
Radford spans about 630 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 | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Radford | 1,860 ft570 m |
| Airport (PSK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi west of the city limits | 2,105 ft642 m |
| Average of all land | 1,900 ft580 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
- 17,273 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,785 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1318° N, 80.5764° 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
- New River Valley (PSK) 2,105 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 24141 24142
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dublin2,120 ft
- Riner2,080 ft
- Parrott2,070 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 Virginia88th highest of 700
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 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.