Culpeper, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 165 m500 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m420 ft 125 m360 ft 110 m340 ft 105 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Culpeper sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 390–480 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the east side
Highest
550 ft 165 m
on the south side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside town limits
Culpeper spans about 210 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 550 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Culpeper | 420 ft130 m |
| Airport (CJR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi northeast of the town limits | 316 ft96 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 21,464 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,846 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4732° N, 77.9967° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Rappahannock River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Culpeper Regional (CJR) 316 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 22701
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Madison590 ft
- Brightwood540 ft
- Orange510 ft
- Rhoadesville480 ft
- Unionville470 ft
- Opal430 ft
- Culpeper430 ft
- Lake of the Woods340 ft
- Brandy Station340 ft
- Bealeton300 ft
- Remington280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia357th highest of 700
- Towns in Culpeper Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Peters Mountain1,800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (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.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.