Prince Edward County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 240 m650 ft 200 m580 ft 180 m450 ft 140 m320 ft 95 m250 ft 75 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
Prince Edward County averages about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 250 ft on the northeast side to 780 ft on Lyle Mountain.
Average elevation
480 ft 145 m
all land inside the county
Highest
780 ft 240 m
on Lyle Mountain
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the northeast side
Prince Edward County spans about 530 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Lyle Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 780 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Farmville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 22,276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 349.9 sq mi + 3.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 64 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
- Appomattox County670 ft
- Buckingham County490 ft
- Charlotte County490 ft
- Prince Edward County480 ft
- Lunenburg County430 ft
- Nottoway County380 ft
- Cumberland County340 ft
- Amelia County300 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia48th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States2,359th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Lyle Mountain780 ft
- Baker Mountain740 ft
- Leigh Mountain710 ft
All 3 towns in Prince Edward County by typical elevation
- Pamplin City partly680 ft
- Hampden-Sydney520 ft
- Farmville360 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.