Fairfax Station, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m400 ft 120 m370 ft 115 m310 ft 95 m250 ft 75 m220 ft 70 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
Fairfax Station sits at about 370 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 110 m
most residents: 330–410 ft
Lowest
220 ft 70 m
on the southwest side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the south side
Average
350 ft 105 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fairfax Station spans about 240 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 | 370 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 220 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairfax Station | 400 ft120 m |
| Airport (IAD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 312 ft95 m |
| Average of all land | 350 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 12,420 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,368 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8009° N, 77.3255° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) 312 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 22030 22032 22039
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Braddock410 ft
- George Mason410 ft
- Fairfax400 ft
- Long Branch380 ft
- Burke Centre370 ft
- Union Mill370 ft
- Kings Park West370 ft
- Fairfax Station370 ft
- Burke310 ft
- Kings Park300 ft
- Clifton260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia395th highest of 700
- Towns in Fairfax County21st highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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.
- Fairfax Station 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.