Bensley, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
140 ft 40 m100 ft 30 m85 ft 26 m51 ft 15 m17 ft 5 m0 ft 0 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
Bensley sits at about 89 ft (27 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
89 ft 27 m
most residents: 50–130 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the southeast side
Highest
140 ft 40 m
on the southwest side
Average
70 ft 21 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bensley spans about 140 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 | 89 ft27 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 140 ft40 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bensley | 65 ft20 m |
| Airport (RIC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 168 ft51 m |
| Average of all land | 70 ft21 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 5,971 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,077 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4468° N, 77.4433° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Richmond International (RIC) 168 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 23234
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bon Air320 ft
- Manchester250 ft
- Rockwood230 ft
- Richmond190 ft
- Meadowbrook170 ft
- Highland Springs160 ft
- Sandston160 ft
- Montrose160 ft
- Chester150 ft
- Bellwood120 ft
- Bensley89 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia579th highest of 700
- Towns in Chesterfield County12th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Hill, Hanover County190 ft
- Gambles Hill190 ft
- Marion Hill160 ft
- Malvern Hill130 ft
- Blanco Mount85 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).
- 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, 0 ft at 37.4387° N, 77.4340° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Bensley 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. All public domain.