Lovingston, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,820 ft 555 m1,530 ft 465 m1,380 ft 420 m1,090 ft 330 m790 ft 240 m640 ft 195 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
Lovingston sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 720–1,250 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,820 ft 555 m
on Peebles Mountain
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lovingston spans about 1,180 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Peebles Mountain | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lovingston | 740 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Nearest peak Chimney Rock, Nelson County, 8.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 3,950 ft1,205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nelson County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 503 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 125 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7599° N, 78.8709° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 22949
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wintergreen3,130 ft
- Sherando1,500 ft
- Lovingston820 ft
- Nellysford750 ft
- Arrington700 ft
- Amherst690 ft
- North Garden670 ft
- Shipman650 ft
- Esmont530 ft
- Schuyler490 ft
- Yogaville470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia251st highest of 700
- Towns in Nelson County3rd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Pond Mountain4,030 ft
- Chimney Rock, Nelson County3,950 ft
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 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.
- Lovingston 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.