Mount Jackson, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m980 ft 300 m880 ft 270 m840 ft 255 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
Mount Jackson sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 840–940 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the east side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on Turkey Knob
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside town limits
Mount Jackson spans about 370 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on Turkey Knob | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Jackson | 910 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,019 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Density
- 530 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7459° N, 78.6422° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- North Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 22842 22847
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Basye1,410 ft
- Hudson Crossroads1,210 ft
- Conicville1,180 ft
- Mount Clifton1,110 ft
- Columbia Furnace1,100 ft
- Forestville1,090 ft
- New Market1,060 ft
- Quicksburg960 ft
- Bowmans Crossing900 ft
- Mount Jackson890 ft
- Edinburg860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia233rd highest of 700
- Towns in Shenandoah County14th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Mill Mountain3,300 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.