Smyth County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,710 ft 1,740 m4,700 ft 1,430 m4,190 ft 1,275 m3,180 ft 970 m2,160 ft 660 m1,660 ft 505 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Smyth County averages about 2,690 ft (820 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,660 ft on the west side to 5,711 ft on Mount Rogers.
Average elevation
2,690 ft 820 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,711 ft 1,741 m
on Mount Rogers
Lowest
1,660 ft 505 m
on the west side
Smyth County spans about 4,050 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,690 ft820 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Rogers (NGS survey height) | 5,711 ft1,741 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,660 ft505 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through Marion.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 29,137 2024 est.
- Land area
- 451.4 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 65 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 75%, Blue Ridge 25%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Grayson County3,020 ft
- Tazewell County2,730 ft
- Bland County2,710 ft
- Smyth County2,690 ft
- Wythe County2,480 ft
- Russell County2,260 ft
- Washington County2,170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia5th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States441st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Rogers5,711 ft
- Balsam Mountain5,530 ft
- Grave Mountain4,650 ft
- Round Top, Smyth County4,620 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
All 9 towns in Smyth County by typical elevation
- Sugar Grove2,700 ft
- Atkins2,320 ft
- Adwolf2,300 ft
- Marion2,260 ft
- McMullin2,170 ft
- Seven Mile Ford2,070 ft
- Chilhowie2,030 ft
- Allison Gap2,030 ft
- Saltville1,910 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.