Bull Run, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
350 ft 105 m260 ft 80 m220 ft 65 m130 ft 40 m44 ft 13 m1 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
Bull Run sits at about 290 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
290 ft 85 m
most residents: 240–320 ft
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the south side
Highest
350 ft 105 m
on Mount Pone
Average
250 ft 75 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bull Run spans about 349 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 | 290 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Mount Pone | 350 ft105 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bull Run | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (IAD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi north of the CDP boundary | 312 ft95 m |
| Average of all land | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 16,794 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 6,437 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7837° N, 77.5205° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) 312 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 20109
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gainesville350 ft
- Bull Run290 ft
- Manassas280 ft
- Manassas Park260 ft
- Buckhall260 ft
- Linton Hall260 ft
- Bull Run, Fairfax County260 ft
- Innovation220 ft
- Yorkshire210 ft
- Sudley200 ft
- Loch Lomond190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia458th highest of 700
- Towns in Prince William County7th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Mill Mountain3,300 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 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, −200 ft at 38.7715° N, 77.5243° 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.
- Bull Run 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.