Scottsburg, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 m400 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m350 ft 105 m340 ft 105 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
Scottsburg sits at about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
380 ft 115 m
most residents: 360–400 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the southwest side
Highest
440 ft 135 m
on the east side
Average
370 ft 115 m
all land inside town limits
Scottsburg spans about 100 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 440 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scottsburg | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (W78) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi southwest of the town limits | 420 ft128 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Halifax County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 124 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 168 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.7574° N, 78.7897° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- William M Tuck (W78) 420 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24589
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Thynedale570 ft
- Virgilina510 ft
- Nathalie510 ft
- Mountain Road460 ft
- Cluster Springs440 ft
- Halifax440 ft
- Clover430 ft
- South Boston410 ft
- Riverdale400 ft
- Scottsburg380 ft
- Clarksville350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia382nd highest of 700
- Towns in Halifax Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 ft
- No Business Mountain2,750 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.