Falls Church, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
440 ft 135 m400 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m340 ft 105 m300 ft 90 m280 ft 85 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Falls Church sits at about 330 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
330 ft 100 m
most residents: 300–370 ft
Lowest
280 ft 85 m
on the east side
Highest
440 ft 135 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
330 ft 100 m
all land inside city limits
Falls Church spans about 160 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 | 330 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 440 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 280 ft85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Falls Church | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (DCA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi east of the city limits | 14 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 330 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 15,034 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 7,348 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8823° N, 77.1711° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl (DCA) 14 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 22046
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dunn Loring420 ft
- Idylwood410 ft
- Pimmit Hills360 ft
- Merrifield350 ft
- Falls Church330 ft
- Seven Corners320 ft
- West Falls Church310 ft
- Annandale310 ft
- McLean300 ft
- Lake Barcroft290 ft
- Bailey's Crossroads250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia424th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Mount Daniel470 ft
- Prout Hill450 ft
- Upton Hill410 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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. All public domain.