Virginia Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,710 ft 1,740 m4,280 ft 1,305 m3,570 ft 1,090 m2,140 ft 655 m710 ft 220 m0 ft 0 m
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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.
- State area
- Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Virginia averages about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Cobb Bay to 5,711 ft on Mount Rogers.
Average elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
all land in Virginia
Highest
5,711 ft 1,741 m
on Mount Rogers
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Cobb Bay
Virginia spans about 5,710 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point In Virginia, on Mount Rogers (NGS survey height) | 5,711 ft1,741 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Cobb Bay | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
396 mi west to east through Virginia Beach.
Topographic Map
- Location
- State in the South Atlantic division of the South region, United States
- Population
- 8,811,195 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39,481.4 sq mi + 3,293.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 223 per sq mi
- Counties
- 94
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 41%, Valley and Ridge 28%, Coastal Plain 17%, Blue Ridge 11%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 79%, Gulf of America 21%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring states sharing a border, by average
- West Virginia1,680 ft
- Virginia1,020 ft
- Tennessee950 ft
- Kentucky830 ft
- North Carolina770 ft
- Maryland440 ft
- District of Columbia150 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- States in the United States28th highest of 52
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Rogers5,711 ft
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- High Rock4,660 ft
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Paddy Knob4,476 ft
All 94 counties by average elevation
- Grayson County3,020 ft
- Highland County2,860 ft
- Tazewell County2,730 ft
- Bland County2,710 ft
- Smyth County2,690 ft
- Floyd County2,590 ft
- Giles County2,510 ft
- Wythe County2,480 ft
- Carroll County2,470 ft
- Wise County2,320 ft
- Russell County2,260 ft
- Bath County2,220 ft
- Pulaski County2,200 ft
- Craig County2,190 ft
- Washington County2,170 ft
- Alleghany County2,050 ft
- Montgomery County2,030 ft
- Dickenson County1,950 ft
- Buchanan County1,910 ft
- Augusta County1,890 ft
- Scott County1,830 ft
- Lee County1,760 ft
- Roanoke County1,740 ft
- Rockingham County1,710 ft
- Rockbridge County1,620 ft
- Patrick County1,590 ft
- Botetourt County1,510 ft
- Page County1,430 ft
- Shenandoah County1,260 ft
- Franklin County1,210 ft
- Greene County1,170 ft
- Amherst County1,130 ft
- Nelson County1,110 ft
- Bedford County1,060 ft
- Madison County1,000 ft
- Rappahannock County990 ft
- Warren County930 ft
- Henry County920 ft
- Frederick County920 ft
- Albemarle County750 ft
- Pittsylvania County700 ft
- Campbell County700 ft
- Appomattox County670 ft
- Clarke County650 ft
- Fauquier County530 ft
- Buckingham County490 ft
- Charlotte County490 ft
- Prince Edward County480 ft
- Loudoun County470 ft
- Halifax County460 ft
- Lunenburg County430 ft
- Orange County430 ft
- Culpeper County390 ft
- Nottoway County380 ft
- Fluvanna County370 ft
- Louisa County370 ft
- Mecklenburg County360 ft
- Cumberland County340 ft
- Amelia County300 ft
- Spotsylvania County290 ft
- Brunswick County280 ft
- Goochland County280 ft
- Powhatan County280 ft
- Fairfax County270 ft
- Prince William County270 ft
- Dinwiddie County230 ft
- Stafford County210 ft
- Chesterfield County210 ft
- Hanover County190 ft
- Caroline County170 ft
- Henrico County160 ft
- Greensville County150 ft
- Prince George County100 ft
- Sussex County98 ft
- King and Queen County98 ft
- Essex County94 ft
- King William County93 ft
- King George County88 ft
- Surry County81 ft
- Richmond County77 ft
- New Kent County77 ft
- Westmoreland County76 ft
- Southampton County66 ft
- Charles City County59 ft
- Middlesex County57 ft
- Isle of Wight County57 ft
- James City County56 ft
- Northumberland County54 ft
- Lancaster County52 ft
- Gloucester County47 ft
- York County44 ft
- Accomack County16 ft
- Northampton County15 ft
- Mathews County10 ft
All 5 tribal lands by average elevation
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 7 arc-second (≈710 ft, 216 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; 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, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −380 ft at 36.6021° N, 77.5771° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- Nearby Places: neighboring states 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 state 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).
- Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
- 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.