Penhook, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m810 ft 250 m730 ft 220 m690 ft 210 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
Penhook sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 820–920 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the south side
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Penhook spans about 330 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Penhook | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (W91) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi north of the CDP boundary | 892 ft272 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 782 2020 Census
- Land area
- 11.2 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 70 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9824° N, 79.6281° 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 1
- 24137
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Henry Fork1,140 ft
- Rocky Mount1,130 ft
- Moneta920 ft
- Penhook870 ft
- Union Hall870 ft
- Westlake Corner860 ft
- Gretna860 ft
- North Shore850 ft
- Motley810 ft
- Chatham720 ft
- Hurt660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia236th highest of 700
- Towns in Franklin County5th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peaks of Otter3,980 ft
- Poor Mountain3,920 ft
- Cahas Mountain3,562 ft
- No Business Mountain2,750 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.
- Penhook 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.