Tazewell, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,020 ft 920 m2,850 ft 870 m2,770 ft 845 m2,600 ft 790 m2,420 ft 740 m2,340 ft 715 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tazewell sits at about 2,480 ft (755 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,480 ft 755 m
most residents: 2,400–2,680 ft
Lowest
2,340 ft 715 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,030 ft 920 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,500 ft 765 m
all land inside town limits
Tazewell spans about 690 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 | 2,480 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,030 ft920 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tazewell | 2,490 ft760 m |
| Average of all land | 2,500 ft765 m |
| Nearest peak Chimney Rock, Tazewell County, 3.9 mi northeast of the town limits | 4,380 ft1,335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 4,302 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 626 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1148° N, 81.5196° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Clinch River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 24630 24651
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Springville2,930 ft
- Gratton2,820 ft
- Abbs Valley2,660 ft
- Boissevain2,580 ft
- Tazewell2,480 ft
- Claypool Hill2,360 ft
- Pounding Mill2,320 ft
- Cedar Bluff1,980 ft
- Amonate1,820 ft
- Cucumber, WV1,560 ft
- Berwind, WV1,500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia22nd highest of 700
- Towns in Tazewell County7th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Knob Mountain4,472 ft
- Chimney Rock, Tazewell County4,380 ft
- Glade Mountain4,090 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.