Hollymead, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 195 m560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m450 ft 140 m380 ft 115 m340 ft 105 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
Hollymead sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 420–570 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the south side
Highest
630 ft 195 m
on the northwest side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Hollymead spans about 290 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 630 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hollymead | 500 ft150 m |
| Airport (CHO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.3 mi north of the CDP boundary | 640 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
| Nearest peak Peters Mountain, 6.7 mi east of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 1,800 ft549 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 8,601 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,331 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1171° N, 78.4417° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Rivanna River → James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Charlottesville-Albemarle (CHO) 640 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 22911 22936
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- University of Virginia640 ft
- Ruckersville620 ft
- Earlysville560 ft
- Twin Lakes560 ft
- Free Union530 ft
- Rio510 ft
- Piney Mountain490 ft
- Pantops490 ft
- Hollymead470 ft
- Charlottesville460 ft
- Keswick420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia338th highest of 700
- Towns in Albemarle County11th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
- Lairds Knob3,270 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 ft
- Peters Mountain1,800 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).
- 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, 340 ft at 38.1018° N, 78.4501° 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.
- Hollymead 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.