Brightwood, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m570 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m470 ft 145 m400 ft 120 m370 ft 110 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
Brightwood sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 480–570 ft
Lowest
370 ft 110 m
on the south side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Brightwood spans about 270 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 370 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brightwood | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Madison County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,064 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 214 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4215° N, 78.1936° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Rapidan River → Rappahannock River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 22715
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sperryville760 ft
- Stanardsville640 ft
- Ruckersville620 ft
- Madison590 ft
- Brightwood540 ft
- Orange510 ft
- Barboursville500 ft
- Rhoadesville480 ft
- Unionville470 ft
- Culpeper430 ft
- Brandy Station340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia310th highest of 700
- Towns in Madison Countylowest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 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.
- Brightwood 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.