Petersburg, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
220 ft 70 m170 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m83 ft 25 m28 ft 8 m0 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Petersburg sits at about 140 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
140 ft 40 m
most residents: 61–160 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
near the middle
Highest
220 ft 70 m
on the northeast side
Average
130 ft 40 m
all land inside city limits
Petersburg spans about 220 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 | 140 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 220 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Petersburg | 67 ft20 m |
| Airport (PTB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi southwest of the city limits | 193 ft59 m |
| Average of all land | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 34,058 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,499 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2279° N, 77.4019° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County (PTB) 193 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 23803 23805
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chester150 ft
- Petersburg140 ft
- Prince George130 ft
- Templeton130 ft
- Matoaca120 ft
- Disputanta120 ft
- Fort Gregg-Adams100 ft
- Ettrick93 ft
- Enon81 ft
- Hopewell66 ft
- Colonial Heights63 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia549th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Malvern Hill130 ft
- Lamptie Hill86 ft
- Blanco Mount85 ft
- Kimages Hill68 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −2 ft at 37.2424° N, 77.3790° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.