Wythe County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,050 ft 1,235 m3,500 ft 1,070 m3,230 ft 985 m2,680 ft 815 m2,130 ft 650 m1,860 ft 565 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
Wythe County averages about 2,480 ft (755 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,860 ft on the east side to 4,050 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,480 ft 755 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,050 ft 1,235 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,860 ft 565 m
on the east side
Wythe County spans about 2,190 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 | 2,480 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 4,050 ft1,235 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,860 ft565 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through Wytheville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 28,100 2024 est.
- Land area
- 462.0 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 61 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 85%, Blue Ridge 15%
- 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
- Bland County2,710 ft
- Smyth County2,690 ft
- Wythe County2,480 ft
- Carroll County2,470 ft
- Pulaski County2,200 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia8th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States493rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Buzzard Rock, Wythe County3,950 ft
- Horse Heaven3,890 ft
- Griffith Knob, Wythe County3,760 ft
- Sand Mountain, Wythe County3,721 ft
- High Rocks3,650 ft
All 6 towns in Wythe County by typical elevation
- Rural Retreat2,570 ft
- Wytheville2,350 ft
- Fort Chiswell2,170 ft
- Austinville2,130 ft
- Max Meadows2,120 ft
- Ivanhoe2,080 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. 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.