Gloucester County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

250 ft 75 m190 ft 55 m160 ft 45 m93 ft 28 m31 ft 9 m0 ft 0 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Gloucester County averages about 47 ft (14 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Mobjack Bay to 250 ft on the northwest side.

Average elevation

47 ft 14 m

all land inside the county

Highest

250 ft 75 m

on the northwest side

Lowest

0 ft 0 m

at sea level on Mobjack Bay

Gloucester County spans about 250 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	47 ft14 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side	250 ft75 m
Lowest point Where the land meets Mobjack Bay	0 ft0 m

Elevation profile, south to north

20 mi south to north through Gloucester Point.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Virginia, United States
Population: 40,154 2024 est.
Land area: 217.8 sq mi + 70.2 sq mi water
Density: 184 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain 94%
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

King and Queen County98 ft
Middlesex County57 ft
James City County56 ft
Gloucester County47 ft
York County44 ft
Mathews County10 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Virginia90th highest of 94
Counties in the United States3,035th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Church Hill110 ft
Pig Hill71 ft

All 2 towns in Gloucester County by typical elevation

Gloucester Courthouse46 ft
Gloucester Point29 ft

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −3 ft at 37.2785° N, 76.3640° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.