Richlands, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,430 ft 740 m2,300 ft 700 m2,230 ft 680 m2,100 ft 640 m1,970 ft 600 m1,900 ft 580 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Richlands sits at about 2,020 ft (615 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,020 ft 615 m
most residents: 1,930–2,150 ft
Lowest
1,900 ft 580 m
on the west side
Highest
2,430 ft 740 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,060 ft 630 m
all land inside town limits
Richlands spans about 530 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 | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 1,900 ft580 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Richlands | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Airport (JFZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.7 mi south of the town limits | 2,653 ft809 m |
| Average of all land | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Nearest peak Knob Mountain, 9.3 mi east of the town limits (NGS survey) | 4,472 ft1,363 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 5,074 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 898 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.0932° N, 81.7937° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Clinch River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tazewell County (JFZ) 2,653 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 24609 24641
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jewell Ridge2,890 ft
- Claypool Hill2,360 ft
- Pounding Mill2,320 ft
- Raven2,130 ft
- Allison Gap2,030 ft
- Doran2,020 ft
- Richlands2,020 ft
- Cedar Bluff1,980 ft
- Honaker1,960 ft
- Amonate1,820 ft
- Berwind, WV1,500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia71st highest of 700
- Towns in Tazewell County14th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Brumley Mountain4,210 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.