Columbia Furnace, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 345 m1,080 ft 330 m1,050 ft 320 m1,000 ft 305 m940 ft 285 m910 ft 280 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Columbia Furnace sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 930–1,100 ft
Lowest
910 ft 280 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the east side
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Columbia Furnace spans about 230 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 910 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbia Furnace | 930 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Nearest peak Mill Mountain, 6.5 mi north of the CDP boundary | 3,300 ft1,005 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 210 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 157 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8762° N, 78.6256° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- North Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hudson Crossroads1,210 ft
- Conicville1,180 ft
- Mount Clifton1,110 ft
- Alonzaville1,100 ft
- Columbia Furnace1,100 ft
- Saumsville960 ft
- Bowmans Crossing900 ft
- Mount Jackson890 ft
- Edinburg860 ft
- Woodstock850 ft
- Maurertown820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia200th highest of 700
- Towns in Shenandoah County7th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Mill Mountain3,300 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- High Knob2,640 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.
- Columbia Furnace 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.