Ridgeway, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 295 m930 ft 280 m900 ft 275 m850 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ridgeway sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 850–950 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
980 ft 295 m
on the southeast side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside town limits
Ridgeway spans about 210 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 980 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ridgeway | 940 ft285 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Henry County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 733 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 767 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.5768° N, 79.8584° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Dan River → Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 24148
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Horse Pasture1,010 ft
- Collinsville900 ft
- Martinsville890 ft
- Ridgeway880 ft
- Fieldale840 ft
- Villa Heights800 ft
- Stoneville, NC780 ft
- Chatmoss770 ft
- Laurel Park730 ft
- Sandy Level700 ft
- Eden, NC600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia235th highest of 700
- Towns in Henry County4th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Cahas Mountain3,562 ft
- Fort Lewis Mountain3,280 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.