Orkney Springs, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,890 ft 575 m1,770 ft 540 m1,710 ft 520 m1,590 ft 485 m1,470 ft 450 m1,410 ft 430 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Orkney Springs sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,510 ft 460 m
few residents
Lowest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the east side
Highest
1,890 ft 575 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,530 ft 465 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Orkney Springs spans about 480 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Orkney Springs | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Average of all land | 1,530 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 0 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7954° N, 78.8145° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Stony Creek → North Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orkney Springs1,510 ft
- Basye1,410 ft
- Hudson Crossroads1,210 ft
- Conicville1,180 ft
- Mount Clifton1,110 ft
- Columbia Furnace1,100 ft
- Forestville1,090 ft
- Timberville1,060 ft
- Quicksburg960 ft
- Bowmans Crossing900 ft
- Mount Jackson890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia123rd highest of 700
- Towns in Shenandoah Countyhighest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Mill Mountain3,300 ft
- Lairds Knob3,270 ft
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Orkney Springs 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.