Northampton County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
88 ft 27 m65 ft 20 m53 ft 16 m31 ft 9 m8 ft 2 m−4 ft −1 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
Northampton County averages about 15 ft (5 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4 ft below sea level on the southeast side to 88 ft near the middle.
Average elevation
15 ft 5 m
all land inside the county
Highest
88 ft 27 m
near the middle
Lowest
−4 ft −1 m
on the southeast side
Northampton County spans about 92 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 | 15 ft5 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, near the middle | 88 ft27 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | −4 ft−1 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
30 mi south to north through Exmore.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 12,004 2024 est.
- Land area
- 211.7 sq mi + 583.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 57 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain 80%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- York County44 ft
- Accomack County16 ft
- Northampton County15 ft
- Hampton city11 ft
- Mathews County10 ft
- Virginia Beach city9 ft
- Poquoson city4 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia93rd highest of 94
- Counties in the United States3,101st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- The Isaacs7 ft
All 8 towns in Northampton County by typical elevation
- Nassawadox35 ft
- Eastville33 ft
- Exmore33 ft
- Town of Belle Haven partly32 ft
- Franktown24 ft
- Willis Wharf24 ft
- Cheriton20 ft
- Cape Charles8 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. 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.