Lynchburg, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 405 m1,120 ft 340 m1,010 ft 310 m800 ft 245 m590 ft 180 m490 ft 150 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lynchburg sits at about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 230 m
most residents: 680–890 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the south side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside city limits
Lynchburg spans about 830 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 | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lynchburg | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (LYH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 938 ft286 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
| Nearest peak No Business Mountain, 6.2 mi west of the city limits | 2,750 ft840 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 80,301 2024 est.
- Land area
- 48.9 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,642 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4138° N, 79.1422° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lynchburg Regional/Preston Glenn Field (LYH) 938 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 24501 24502 24503 24504 24515
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bedford950 ft
- Timberlake900 ft
- Rustburg850 ft
- Concord850 ft
- Forest840 ft
- Appomattox810 ft
- Madison Heights780 ft
- Lynchburg760 ft
- Big Island700 ft
- Amherst690 ft
- Altavista660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia261st highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Apple Orchard Mountain4,222 ft
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,360 ft
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 ft
- No Business Mountain2,750 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.