Bath County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,480 ft 1,365 m3,640 ft 1,110 m3,220 ft 980 m2,380 ft 725 m1,550 ft 470 m1,130 ft 345 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
Bath County averages about 2,220 ft (675 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,130 ft on the south side to 4,476 ft on Paddy Knob.
Average elevation
2,220 ft 675 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,476 ft 1,364 m
on Paddy Knob
Lowest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the south side
Bath County spans about 3,350 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 | 2,220 ft675 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Paddy Knob (NGS survey height) | 4,476 ft1,364 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 1,130 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Hot Springs.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 4,071 2024 est.
- Land area
- 529.2 sq mi + 5.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.7 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Pocahontas County, WV3,220 ft
- Highland County2,860 ft
- Greenbrier County, WV2,630 ft
- Bath County2,220 ft
- Alleghany County2,050 ft
- Augusta County1,890 ft
- Rockbridge County1,620 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia12th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States551st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Paddy Knob4,476 ft
- Bald Knob4,240 ft
- Mad Sheep4,225 ft
- Mad Tom4,050 ft
- Chestnut Ridge3,270 ft
All 3 towns in Bath County by typical elevation
- Warm Springs2,660 ft
- Hot Springs2,460 ft
- Millboro1,730 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; 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; 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.