Orange County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 365 m930 ft 285 m800 ft 245 m540 ft 165 m290 ft 85 m160 ft 50 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
Orange County averages about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 160 ft on the northeast side to 1,190 ft on Cowherd Mountain.
Average elevation
430 ft 130 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,190 ft 365 m
on Cowherd Mountain
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the northeast side
Orange County spans about 1,030 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Cowherd Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through Lake of the Woods.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 38,986 2024 est.
- Land area
- 340.5 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 115 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Greene County1,170 ft
- Madison County1,000 ft
- Albemarle County750 ft
- Orange County430 ft
- Culpeper County390 ft
- Louisa County370 ft
- Spotsylvania County290 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia52nd highest of 94
- Counties in the United States2,437th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cowherd Mountain1,190 ft
- Merry Mountain1,110 ft
- Clark Mountain, Orange County1,081 ft
- Gibson Mountain, Orange County980 ft
- Scott Mountain, Orange County970 ft
All 6 towns in Orange County by typical elevation
- Orange510 ft
- Barboursville500 ft
- Gordonsville490 ft
- Rhoadesville480 ft
- Unionville470 ft
- Lake of the Woods340 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.