Gainesville, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 135 m390 ft 120 m370 ft 115 m330 ft 100 m290 ft 85 m270 ft 80 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
Gainesville sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 320–390 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the east side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the west side
Average
350 ft 110 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Gainesville 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 270 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gainesville | 360 ft110 m |
| Airport (IAD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 312 ft95 m |
| Average of all land | 350 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 18,112 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.1 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,791 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7957° N, 77.6139° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Occoquan River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) 312 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 20155 20169
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Baltimore440 ft
- Haymarket360 ft
- Gainesville350 ft
- Bull Run290 ft
- Manassas Park260 ft
- Linton Hall260 ft
- Bull Run, Fairfax County260 ft
- Nokesville240 ft
- Innovation220 ft
- Sudley200 ft
- Loch Lomond190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia408th highest of 700
- Towns in Prince William County3rd highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Mill Mountain3,300 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 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.
- Gainesville 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.