Greene County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,660 ft 1,115 m2,840 ft 865 m2,430 ft 740 m1,620 ft 495 m810 ft 245 m400 ft 120 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Greene County averages about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 400 ft on the east side to 3,660 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,660 ft 1,115 m
on the north side
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the east side
Greene County spans about 3,260 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 3,660 ft1,115 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 400 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
17 mi south to north through Twin Lakes.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 21,744 2024 est.
- Land area
- 155.9 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 139 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Blue Ridge 60%, Piedmont 40%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Rockingham County1,710 ft
- Page County1,430 ft
- Greene County1,170 ft
- Madison County1,000 ft
- Albemarle County750 ft
- Orange County430 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia31st highest of 94
- Counties in the United States1,164th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Lewis Mountain, Greene County3,570 ft
- Bush Mountain, Greene County3,530 ft
- Saddleback Mountain3,380 ft
- Flattop Mountain, Greene County3,300 ft
All 3 towns in Greene County by typical elevation
- Stanardsville640 ft
- Ruckersville620 ft
- Twin Lakes560 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, 350 ft at 38.2465° N, 78.3724° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.