Charles City County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Charles City County, Virginia, shaded from 0 ft on the east side to 280 ft on the northwest side
Elevation
280 ft 85 m210 ft 65 m180 ft 55 m110 ft 30 m35 ft 11 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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County area
Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Charles City County averages about 59 ft (18 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 0 ft on the east side to 280 ft on the northwest side.

Average elevation
59 ft 18 m
all land inside the county
Highest
280 ft 85 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the east side

Charles City County spans about 280 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.

FigureElevation
Average of all land59 ft18 m
Highest point
Inside the county, on the northwest side
280 ft85 m
Lowest point
Inside the county, on the east side
0 ft0 m

Elevation profile, south to north

12 mi south to north through Charles City.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Charles City County, Virginia, shaded from 0 ft on the east side to 280 ft on the northwest side
County boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 20 ft (6 m).
Location
County in Virginia, United States
Population
6,564 2024 est.
Land area
182.9 sq mi + 21.3 sq mi water
Density
36 per sq mi
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

  1. Chesterfield County210 ft
  2. Henrico County160 ft
  3. Prince George County100 ft
  4. Surry County81 ft
  5. New Kent County77 ft
  6. Charles City County59 ft
  7. James City County56 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Peaks and hills highest inside

  • Lamptie Hill86 ft
  • Kimages Hill68 ft
The one town in Charles City County
  1. Charles City39 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
  • 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, −12 ft at 37.2654° N, 76.9046° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
  • 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.