Cumberland, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m340 ft 105 m320 ft 100 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
Cumberland sits at about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 130 m
most residents: 380–450 ft
Lowest
320 ft 100 m
on the west side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
on the southwest side
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cumberland spans about 170 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 | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 320 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cumberland | 460 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cumberland County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 365 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi
- Density
- 88 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4960° N, 78.2453° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Willis River → James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 23040
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dillwyn600 ft
- Hampden-Sydney520 ft
- Burkeville510 ft
- Crewe470 ft
- Buckingham Courthouse450 ft
- Cumberland420 ft
- Farmville360 ft
- Amelia Court House350 ft
- Powhatan340 ft
- Columbia260 ft
- Goochland250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia360th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chimney Rock, Nelson County3,950 ft
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 ft
- Peters Mountain1,800 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).
- 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, 320 ft at 37.5026° N, 78.2654° 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.
- Cumberland 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.