Manchester, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
330 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m260 ft 80 m210 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m140 ft 45 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
Manchester sits at about 250 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
250 ft 75 m
most residents: 220–310 ft
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the north side
Highest
330 ft 100 m
on the west side
Average
250 ft 75 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Manchester spans about 190 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 | 250 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 330 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Manchester | 290 ft90 m |
| Airport (RIC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi east of the CDP boundary | 168 ft51 m |
| Average of all land | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 12,129 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,047 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4856° N, 77.5344° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Richmond International (RIC) 168 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 23225 23235 23236
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bon Air320 ft
- Midlothian280 ft
- Manchester250 ft
- Brandermill230 ft
- Rockwood230 ft
- Tuckahoe230 ft
- Richmond190 ft
- Meadowbrook170 ft
- Montrose160 ft
- Bellwood120 ft
- Bensley89 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia491st highest of 700
- Towns in Chesterfield County3rd highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peters Mountain1,800 ft
- Shooters Hill, Goochland County230 ft
- Sliding Hill220 ft
- Gambles Hill190 ft
- Marion Hill160 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 140 ft at 37.5210° N, 77.5296° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Manchester 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.