Hanover, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
110 ft 35 m93 ft 28 m82 ft 25 m60 ft 18 m38 ft 11 m27 ft 8 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
Hanover sits at about 100 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
100 ft 30 m
most residents: 86–110 ft
Lowest
27 ft 8 m
on the north side
Highest
110 ft 35 m
on the west side
Average
94 ft 29 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Hanover spans about 83 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 | 100 ft30 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 110 ft35 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 27 ft8 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hanover | 110 ft30 m |
| Airport (OFP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 207 ft63 m |
| Average of all land | 94 ft29 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hanover County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 235 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 198 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7665° N, 77.3703° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Pamunkey River → York River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hanover County Municipal (OFP) 207 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 23069
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Innsbrook260 ft
- Laurel230 ft
- Ashland220 ft
- Dumbarton220 ft
- Glen Allen200 ft
- Lakeside190 ft
- Chamberlayne180 ft
- Mechanicsville170 ft
- East Highland Park170 ft
- Central Garage150 ft
- Hanover100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia572nd highest of 700
- Towns in Hanover Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peters Mountain1,800 ft
- Sliding Hill220 ft
- Turkey Hill, Hanover County190 ft
- Gambles Hill190 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.
- Hanover 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.