Dayton, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,340 ft 405 m1,300 ft 395 m1,280 ft 390 m1,250 ft 380 m1,210 ft 370 m1,200 ft 365 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dayton sits at about 1,240 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,240 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,210–1,290 ft
Lowest
1,200 ft 365 m
near the middle
Highest
1,340 ft 405 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,240 ft 380 m
all land inside town limits
Dayton spans about 140 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 | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dayton | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Airport (SHD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi south of the town limits | 1,201 ft366 m |
| Average of all land | 1,240 ft380 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,756 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,705 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4148° N, 78.9386° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- South Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Shenandoah Valley Regional (SHD) 1,201 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 22821
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Singers Glen1,670 ft
- Massanetta Springs1,390 ft
- Harrisonburg1,370 ft
- Keezletown1,360 ft
- Belmont Estates1,340 ft
- Linville1,310 ft
- Dayton1,240 ft
- Mount Crawford1,200 ft
- Bridgewater1,190 ft
- Weyers Cave1,180 ft
- Port Republic1,100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia172nd highest of 700
- Towns in Rockingham County7th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Little Bald Knob4,350 ft
- Hardscrabble Knob4,281 ft
- Crawford Knob3,730 ft
- Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
- Lairds Knob3,270 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.