Bedford County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,220 ft 1,285 m3,300 ft 1,005 m2,840 ft 865 m1,920 ft 585 m1,000 ft 305 m530 ft 165 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
Bedford County averages about 1,060 ft (320 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 530 ft on the southeast side to 4,222 ft on Apple Orchard Mountain.
Average elevation
1,060 ft 320 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,222 ft 1,287 m
on Apple Orchard Mountain
Lowest
530 ft 165 m
on the southeast side
Bedford County spans about 3,690 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 | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Apple Orchard Mountain (NGS survey height) | 4,222 ft1,287 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 530 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
29 mi west to east through Forest.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 82,182 2024 est.
- Land area
- 760.1 sq mi + 16.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 108 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Blue Ridge 49%, Piedmont 49%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Roanoke County1,740 ft
- Rockbridge County1,620 ft
- Botetourt County1,510 ft
- Franklin County1,210 ft
- Amherst County1,130 ft
- Bedford County1,060 ft
- Lynchburg city760 ft
- Pittsylvania County700 ft
- Campbell County700 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia34th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States1,312th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Sharp Top Mountain3,830 ft
- Onion Mountain3,820 ft
- No Business Mountain2,750 ft
- Foster Knob2,560 ft
All 6 towns in Bedford County by typical elevation
- Stewartsville1,040 ft
- Montvale1,020 ft
- Bedford950 ft
- Moneta920 ft
- Forest840 ft
- Big Island700 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.