Luray, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m980 ft 300 m950 ft 290 m870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 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
Luray sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 810–920 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the north side
Highest
1,060 ft 325 m
on Cave Hill
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside town limits
Luray spans about 300 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on Cave Hill | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Luray | 810 ft245 m |
| Airport (LUA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi west of the town limits | 902 ft275 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
| Nearest peak Stony Man, 4.5 mi southeast of the town limits (NGS survey) | 4,011 ft1,223 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Page County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 4,813 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Density
- 991 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6654° N, 78.4595° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- South Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Luray Caverns (LUA) 902 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 22835
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Clifton1,110 ft
- Forestville1,090 ft
- Stanley1,080 ft
- New Market1,060 ft
- Quicksburg960 ft
- Bowmans Crossing900 ft
- Mount Jackson890 ft
- Edinburg860 ft
- Luray860 ft
- Woodstock850 ft
- Sperryville760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia240th highest of 700
- Towns in Page Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Lairds Knob3,270 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.