Fredericksburg, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
290 ft 90 m220 ft 65 m180 ft 55 m110 ft 35 m38 ft 12 m1 ft 0 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
Fredericksburg sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 50 m
most residents: 49–250 ft
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the southeast side
Highest
290 ft 90 m
on the west side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside city limits
Fredericksburg spans about 289 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 | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 290 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fredericksburg | 57 ft17 m |
| Airport (RMN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.4 mi north of the city limits | 219 ft67 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 29,992 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,870 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3032° N, 77.4605° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Rappahannock River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Washington Exec/Stafford Regional (RMN) 219 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 22401
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Stafford Lakes Village290 ft
- England Run280 ft
- Falls Run220 ft
- Leeland Station190 ft
- Grafton Village180 ft
- Courthouse Square180 ft
- Fredericksburg170 ft
- Passapatanzy160 ft
- Falmouth160 ft
- Ferry Farm130 ft
- Chatham Heights91 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia536th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Peters Mountain1,800 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.