Hanover County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m290 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m150 ft 45 m49 ft 15 m0 ft 0 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
Hanover County averages about 190 ft (60 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 0 ft on the north side to 390 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
190 ft 60 m
all land inside the county
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the west side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the north side
Hanover County spans about 390 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 | 190 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
15 mi west to east through Mechanicsville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 115,309 2024 est.
- Land area
- 467.6 sq mi + 4.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 247 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 68%, Coastal Plain 32%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Louisa County370 ft
- Spotsylvania County290 ft
- Goochland County280 ft
- Hanover County190 ft
- Caroline County170 ft
- Henrico County160 ft
- King William County93 ft
- New Kent County77 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia69th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States2,785th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Sliding Hill220 ft
- Turkey Hill, Hanover County190 ft
All 3 towns in Hanover County by typical elevation
- Ashland220 ft
- Mechanicsville170 ft
- Hanover100 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, −150 ft at 37.8765° N, 77.5065° 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.