Ripplemead, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,960 ft 600 m1,860 ft 565 m1,810 ft 550 m1,710 ft 520 m1,610 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 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
Ripplemead sits at about 1,830 ft (560 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,830 ft 560 m
most residents: 1,800–1,850 ft
Lowest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,960 ft 600 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,790 ft 545 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ripplemead spans about 400 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 | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,960 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ripplemead | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Average of all land | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Nearest peak Salt Pond Mountain, 8.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 4,330 ft1,320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Giles County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 306 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 270 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3371° N, 80.6862° 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
- ZIP codes 1
- 24150
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Parrott2,070 ft
- Prices Fork1,960 ft
- Pearisburg1,840 ft
- Ripplemead1,830 ft
- Eggleston1,810 ft
- Belspring1,770 ft
- Pembroke1,760 ft
- Rich Creek1,710 ft
- Narrows1,660 ft
- Peterstown, WV1,650 ft
- Glen Lyn1,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia91st highest of 700
- Towns in Giles County2nd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 ft
- Wrights Peak4,070 ft
- Bickett Knob3,330 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.
- Ripplemead 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.