Colonial Heights, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
100 ft 30 m77 ft 23 m64 ft 19 m38 ft 12 m13 ft 4 m0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Colonial Heights sits at about 63 ft (19 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
63 ft 19 m
most residents: 35–93 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the north side
Highest
100 ft 30 m
near the middle
Average
49 ft 15 m
all land inside city limits
Colonial Heights spans about 100 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 | 63 ft19 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 100 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colonial Heights | 94 ft29 m |
| Airport (PTB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi southwest of the city limits | 193 ft59 m |
| Average of all land | 49 ft15 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 18,674 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,484 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2440° N, 77.4103° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County (PTB) 193 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 23834
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chester150 ft
- Petersburg140 ft
- Prince George130 ft
- Templeton130 ft
- Matoaca120 ft
- Bellwood120 ft
- Fort Gregg-Adams100 ft
- Ettrick93 ft
- Enon81 ft
- Hopewell66 ft
- Colonial Heights63 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia596th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Marion Hill160 ft
- Malvern Hill130 ft
- Lamptie Hill86 ft
- Blanco Mount85 ft
- Kimages Hill68 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, −1 ft at 37.2918° N, 77.3660° 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.