Rocky Gap, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,280 ft 695 m2,210 ft 675 m2,170 ft 660 m2,090 ft 640 m2,020 ft 615 m1,980 ft 605 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
Rocky Gap sits at about 2,010 ft (610 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,010 ft 610 m
most residents: 2,000–2,100 ft
Lowest
1,980 ft 605 m
on the east side
Highest
2,280 ft 695 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,040 ft 620 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rocky Gap spans about 300 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 | 2,010 ft610 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,280 ft695 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rocky Gap | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Airport (BLF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 2,857 ft871 m |
| Average of all land | 2,040 ft620 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Bland County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 87 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 412 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2423° N, 81.1073° 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
- Mercer County (BLF) 2,857 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24366
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bluewell, WV2,710 ft
- Bluefield, WV2,590 ft
- Brush Fork, WV2,510 ft
- Bluefield2,500 ft
- Bland2,480 ft
- Princeton, WV2,450 ft
- Mechanicsburg2,360 ft
- Montcalm, WV2,320 ft
- Bastian2,210 ft
- Rocky Gap2,010 ft
- Oakvale, WV1,790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia73rd highest of 700
- Towns in Bland Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Salt Pond Mountain4,330 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
- Sugar Run Mountain4,083 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.
- Rocky Gap 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.