Amelia County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
530 ft 160 m440 ft 135 m390 ft 120 m300 ft 90 m200 ft 60 m160 ft 50 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
Amelia County averages about 300 ft (90 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 160 ft on the east side to 530 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
300 ft 90 m
all land inside the county
Highest
530 ft 160 m
on the west side
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the east side
Amelia County spans about 370 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 | 300 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 530 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Amelia Court House.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 13,716 2024 est.
- Land area
- 357.8 sq mi + 3.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 38 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Prince Edward County480 ft
- Nottoway County380 ft
- Cumberland County340 ft
- Amelia County300 ft
- Powhatan County280 ft
- Dinwiddie County230 ft
- Chesterfield County210 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia59th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States2,624th highest of 3,151
The one town in Amelia County
- Amelia Court House350 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.