Buckingham County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,600 ft 490 m1,240 ft 380 m1,060 ft 325 m700 ft 215 m340 ft 105 m160 ft 50 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Buckingham County averages about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 160 ft on the northeast side to 1,600 ft on Spears Mountain.

Average elevation

490 ft 150 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,600 ft 490 m

on Spears Mountain

Lowest

160 ft 50 m

on the northeast side

Buckingham County spans about 1,440 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	490 ft150 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Spears Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height)	1,600 ft490 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side	160 ft50 m

Elevation profile, west to east

27 mi west to east through Dillwyn.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Virginia, United States
Population: 17,115 2024 est.
Land area: 579.6 sq mi + 3.8 sq mi water
Density: 30 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Piedmont
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Nelson County1,110 ft
Albemarle County750 ft
Appomattox County670 ft
Buckingham County490 ft
Prince Edward County480 ft
Fluvanna County370 ft
Cumberland County340 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Virginia46th highest of 94
Counties in the United States2,339th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Spears Mountain1,600 ft
Pruetts Mountain1,380 ft
Gunner Mountain1,130 ft
Willis Mountain1,050 ft
Buck Mountain, Buckingham County1,000 ft

All 3 towns in Buckingham County by typical elevation

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.