Culpeper County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,090 ft 335 m850 ft 260 m720 ft 220 m470 ft 145 m230 ft 70 m100 ft 30 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Culpeper County averages about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 100 ft on the south side to 1,090 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,090 ft 335 m
on the west side
Lowest
100 ft 30 m
on the south side
Culpeper County spans about 990 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 100 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Culpeper.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 56,125 2024 est.
- Land area
- 379.2 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 148 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont 97%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Madison County1,000 ft
- Rappahannock County990 ft
- Fauquier County530 ft
- Orange County430 ft
- Culpeper County390 ft
- Spotsylvania County290 ft
- Stafford County210 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia53rd highest of 94
- Counties in the United States2,485th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bald Mountain, Culpeper County990 ft
- Scott Mountain, Culpeper County890 ft
- Hitt Mountain880 ft
- Bruce Mountain840 ft
- Cedar Mountain, Culpeper County830 ft
All 2 towns in Culpeper County by typical elevation
- Culpeper430 ft
- Brandy Station340 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.
- 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.