Rose Hill, Lee County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,880 ft 575 m1,750 ft 535 m1,680 ft 515 m1,550 ft 475 m1,420 ft 435 m1,360 ft 415 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rose Hill, Lee County sits at about 1,440 ft (440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,440 ft 440 m
most residents: 1,410–1,610 ft
Lowest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,880 ft 575 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,550 ft 475 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rose Hill, Lee County spans about 520 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 | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,880 ft575 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rose Hill, Lee County | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Airport (0VG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,411 ft430 m |
| Average of all land | 1,550 ft475 m |
| Nearest peak White Rocks, 2.5 mi west of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 3,510 ft1,070 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lee County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 729 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Density
- 213 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6718° N, 83.3674° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Powell River → Clinch River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lee County (0VG) 1,411 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24281
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cawood, KY1,620 ft
- Ewing1,550 ft
- Rose Hill, Lee County1,440 ft
- South Wallins, KY1,370 ft
- Pathfork, KY1,250 ft
- Sneedville, TN1,240 ft
- Coxton, KY1,230 ft
- Harlan, KY1,220 ft
- Wallins Creek, KY1,180 ft
- Loyall, KY1,170 ft
- Coldiron, KY1,120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia132nd highest of 700
- Towns in Lee Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 ft
- Short Mountain2,679 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.
- Rose Hill, Lee County 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.