Pittsylvania County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,040 ft 620 m1,610 ft 490 m1,400 ft 425 m980 ft 300 m550 ft 170 m340 ft 105 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
Pittsylvania County averages about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 340 ft on the southeast side to 2,035 ft on Smith Mountain.
Average elevation
700 ft 215 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,035 ft 620 m
on Smith Mountain
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the southeast side
Pittsylvania County spans about 1,700 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 | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Smith Mountain (NGS survey height) | 2,035 ft620 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 340 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
32 mi south to north through Mount Hermon.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 59,410 2024 est.
- Land area
- 969.0 sq mi + 9.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 61 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
- Franklin County1,210 ft
- Bedford County1,060 ft
- Henry County920 ft
- Rockingham County, NC720 ft
- Pittsylvania County700 ft
- Campbell County700 ft
- Caswell County, NC580 ft
- Danville city520 ft
- Halifax County460 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia41st highest of 94
- Counties in the United States2,019th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Smith Mountain, Pittsylvania County2,035 ft
- Greer Knob1,630 ft
- Brier Mountain, Pittsylvania County1,190 ft
- Jasper Mountain1,160 ft
- White Oak Mountain1,160 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.