Barboursville, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m560 ft 170 m510 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Barboursville sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 155 m
most residents: 490–530 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northeast side
Highest
630 ft 190 m
at the foot of the Southwest Mountains
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Barboursville spans about 190 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Southwest Mountains | 630 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Barboursville | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (CHO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.4 mi west of the CDP boundary | 640 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
| Nearest peak Peters Mountain, 2.1 mi south of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 1,800 ft549 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Orange County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 177 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 79 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1710° N, 78.2817° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Rapidan River → Rappahannock River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Charlottesville-Albemarle (CHO) 640 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 22923 22942
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Stanardsville640 ft
- Ruckersville620 ft
- Earlysville560 ft
- Twin Lakes560 ft
- Orange510 ft
- Rio510 ft
- Barboursville500 ft
- Gordonsville490 ft
- Piney Mountain490 ft
- Hollymead470 ft
- Keswick420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia328th highest of 700
- Towns in Orange County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Peters Mountain1,800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Barboursville is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.