Hampden-Sydney, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 170 m500 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m420 ft 130 m370 ft 110 m340 ft 105 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
Hampden-Sydney sits at about 520 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 155 m
most residents: 460–540 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the northwest side
Highest
550 ft 170 m
on the south side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Hampden-Sydney spans about 210 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 | 520 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 550 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hampden-Sydney | 530 ft160 m |
| Airport (FVX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi north of the CDP boundary | 416 ft127 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,191 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi
- Density
- 307 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2424° N, 78.4597° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Appomattox River → James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Farmville Regional (FVX) 416 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 23901 23943
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pamplin City680 ft
- Keysville630 ft
- Dillwyn600 ft
- Charlotte Court House520 ft
- Hampden-Sydney520 ft
- Burkeville510 ft
- Phenix480 ft
- Crewe470 ft
- Drakes Branch450 ft
- Cumberland420 ft
- Farmville360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia320th highest of 700
- Towns in Prince Edward Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chimney Rock, Nelson County3,950 ft
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 ft
- No Business Mountain2,750 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 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.
- Hampden-Sydney 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.