Laurel, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
330 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m260 ft 80 m210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 45 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
Laurel sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 200–290 ft
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the southeast side
Highest
330 ft 100 m
on the southwest side
Average
220 ft 70 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Laurel spans about 190 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 330 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Laurel | 220 ft70 m |
| Airport (RIC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 168 ft51 m |
| Average of all land | 220 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Henrico County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 17,769 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi
- Density
- 3,298 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6429° N, 77.5089° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Chickahominy River → James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Richmond International (RIC) 168 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 23060 23228 23294
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wyndham260 ft
- Innsbrook260 ft
- Short Pump250 ft
- Laurel230 ft
- Tuckahoe230 ft
- Dumbarton220 ft
- Glen Allen200 ft
- Lakeside190 ft
- Richmond190 ft
- Chamberlayne180 ft
- East Highland Park170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia505th highest of 700
- Towns in Henrico County4th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peters Mountain1,800 ft
- Shooters Hill, Goochland County230 ft
- Sliding Hill220 ft
- Gambles Hill190 ft
- Marion Hill160 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).
- 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.
- Laurel 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.