Chester Gap, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,050 ft 625 m1,720 ft 525 m1,560 ft 475 m1,230 ft 375 m910 ft 275 m740 ft 225 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
Chester Gap sits at about 1,470 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,470 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,290–1,970 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,050 ft 625 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,350 ft 410 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Chester Gap spans about 1,310 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 | 1,470 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,050 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chester Gap | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Airport (FRR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 704 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 1,350 ft410 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Rappahannock and Warren counties, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 894 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 430 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8534° N, 78.1350° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Rappahannock River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Front Royal-Warren County (FRR) 704 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 22623 22640
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chester Gap1,470 ft
- Skyland Estates1,340 ft
- Apple Mountain Lake950 ft
- Shenandoah Farms910 ft
- Sperryville760 ft
- Paris740 ft
- Middletown710 ft
- Washington680 ft
- Flint Hill620 ft
- Front Royal590 ft
- Shenandoah Shores570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia127th highest of 700
- Towns in Rappahannock Countyhighest of 4
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).
- 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.
- Chester Gap 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.