Highland County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,540 ft 1,380 m3,800 ft 1,160 m3,440 ft 1,050 m2,710 ft 825 m1,980 ft 605 m1,610 ft 490 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
Highland County averages about 2,860 ft (870 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,610 ft on the south side to 4,540 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
2,860 ft 870 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,540 ft 1,380 m
on the west side
Lowest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the south side
Highland County spans about 2,930 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 | 2,860 ft870 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 4,540 ft1,380 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 1,610 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
25 mi south to north through Monterey.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,348 2024 est.
- Land area
- 415.2 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.7 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Pocahontas County, WV3,220 ft
- Highland County2,860 ft
- Pendleton County, WV2,590 ft
- Bath County2,220 ft
- Augusta County1,890 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia2nd highest of 94
- Counties in the United States408th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Barren Rock4,386 ft
- Sounding Knob4,383 ft
- Red Oak Knob4,230 ft
- Bearcamp Knob4,160 ft
- The Stamp4,100 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.
- 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.