Hillsboro, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 275 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m540 ft 165 m490 ft 150 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hillsboro sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 520–600 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the south side
Highest
910 ft 275 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside town limits
Hillsboro spans about 420 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 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 910 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hillsboro | 530 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 110 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 415 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1982° N, 77.7228° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 20132
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shannondale, WV610 ft
- Shenandoah Retreat590 ft
- Round Hill540 ft
- Purcellville530 ft
- Hillsboro520 ft
- Hamilton510 ft
- Lovettsville490 ft
- Bolivar, WV490 ft
- Harpers Ferry, WV460 ft
- Sandy Hook, MD420 ft
- Waterford410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia318th highest of 700
- Towns in Loudoun County3rd highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Mill Mountain3,300 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (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.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.