Louisa, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 m380 ft 115 m370 ft 110 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Louisa sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 410–470 ft
Lowest
370 ft 110 m
on the north side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the northwest side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside town limits
Louisa spans about 110 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 370 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Louisa | 470 ft140 m |
| Airport (LKU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi southeast of the town limits | 494 ft151 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Louisa County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,201 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,211 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0251° N, 78.0042° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- South Anna River → Pamunkey River → York River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Louisa County/Freeman Field (LKU) 494 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 23093
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orange510 ft
- Barboursville500 ft
- Gordonsville490 ft
- Rhoadesville480 ft
- Unionville470 ft
- Mineral440 ft
- Louisa430 ft
- Keswick420 ft
- Lake Monticello380 ft
- Blue Ridge Shores330 ft
- Palmyra330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia354th highest of 700
- Towns in Louisa County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 ft
- Peters Mountain1,800 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.