Harrisonburg, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,770 ft 540 m1,620 ft 495 m1,550 ft 470 m1,410 ft 430 m1,260 ft 385 m1,190 ft 360 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Harrisonburg sits at about 1,370 ft (420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,370 ft 420 m

most residents: 1,310–1,480 ft

Lowest

1,190 ft 360 m

on the southwest side

Highest

1,770 ft 540 m

on the southeast side

Average

1,370 ft 420 m

all land inside city limits

Harrisonburg spans about 580 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	1,370 ft420 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side	1,770 ft540 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side	1,190 ft360 m
Town center USGS map point for Harrisonburg	1,320 ft405 m
Airport (SHD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi south of the city limits	1,201 ft366 m
Average of all land	1,370 ft420 m
Nearest peak Lairds Knob, 5.2 mi east of the city limits	3,270 ft995 m

Elevation profile, south to north

4.6 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Independent city in Virginia, United States
Population: 51,164 2024 est.
Land area: 17.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 2,951 per sq mi
Coordinates: 38.4496° N, 78.8689° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Valley and Ridge
Drains to: South Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
Airport: Shenandoah Valley Regional (SHD) 1,201 ft
ZIP codes 3: 22801 22802 22807

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Singers Glen1,670 ft
Massanetta Springs1,390 ft
Harrisonburg1,370 ft
Massanutten1,370 ft
Keezletown1,360 ft
Belmont Estates1,340 ft
Linville1,310 ft
Dayton1,240 ft
Mount Crawford1,200 ft
Bridgewater1,190 ft
McGaheysville1,170 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Virginia149th highest of 700

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Little Bald Knob4,350 ft
Crawford Knob3,730 ft
Hightop3,593 ft
Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
Lairds Knob3,270 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
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, 1,180 ft at 38.4576° N, 78.8849° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.