Lancaster, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
96 ft 29 m72 ft 22 m60 ft 18 m37 ft 11 m13 ft 4 m1 ft 0 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
Lancaster sits at about 74 ft (23 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
74 ft 23 m
few residents
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the west side
Highest
96 ft 29 m
on the southeast side
Average
64 ft 20 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lancaster spans about 95 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 74 ft23 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 96 ft29 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lancaster | 75 ft23 m |
| Average of all land | 64 ft20 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 105 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7699° N, 76.4663° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 22503
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Warsaw120 ft
- Heathsville80 ft
- Kilmarnock80 ft
- Lancaster74 ft
- Saluda45 ft
- White Stone44 ft
- Irvington29 ft
- Weems16 ft
- Urbanna15 ft
- Deltaville7 ft
- Gwynn5 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia592nd highest of 700
- Towns in Lancaster County2nd highest of 5
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- 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.
- Lancaster 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.