Madison County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,030 ft 1,230 m3,090 ft 945 m2,620 ft 800 m1,690 ft 515 m750 ft 230 m280 ft 85 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Madison County averages about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 280 ft on the southeast side to 4,030 ft on Hawksbill.
Average elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,030 ft 1,230 m
on Hawksbill
Lowest
280 ft 85 m
on the southeast side
Madison County spans about 3,750 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Hawksbill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,030 ft1,230 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
17 mi west to east through Brightwood.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 14,252 2024 est.
- Land area
- 320.6 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 50%, Blue Ridge 50%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Page County1,430 ft
- Greene County1,170 ft
- Madison County1,000 ft
- Rappahannock County990 ft
- Orange County430 ft
- Culpeper County390 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia35th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States1,398th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hawksbill4,030 ft
- Fork Mountain, Madison County3,850 ft
- Spitler Hill3,720 ft
- Cat Knob3,700 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
All 2 towns in Madison County by typical elevation
- Madison590 ft
- Brightwood540 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.