North Shore, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m980 ft 300 m950 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m820 ft 250 m790 ft 240 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
North Shore sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 810–910 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
near the middle
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
North Shore spans about 260 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Shore | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Airport (W91) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 892 ft272 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 3,332 2020 Census
- Land area
- 14.0 sq mi + 6.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 238 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.0821° N, 79.6584° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Roanoke River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Smith Mountain Lake (W91) 892 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 24121 24184
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Boones Mill1,200 ft
- Henry Fork1,140 ft
- Rocky Mount1,130 ft
- Stewartsville1,040 ft
- Moneta920 ft
- Penhook870 ft
- Union Hall870 ft
- Westlake Corner860 ft
- Gretna860 ft
- North Shore850 ft
- Motley810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia244th highest of 700
- Towns in Franklin Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Cahas Mountain3,562 ft
- Catawba Mountain3,180 ft
- Foster Knob2,560 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).
- 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.
- North Shore 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.