Rappahannock County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,710 ft 1,130 m2,870 ft 875 m2,450 ft 745 m1,600 ft 490 m750 ft 230 m330 ft 100 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
Rappahannock County averages about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 330 ft on the east side to 3,710 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
990 ft 300 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,710 ft 1,130 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the east side
Rappahannock County spans about 3,380 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 3,710 ft1,130 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 330 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through Chester Gap.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 7,479 2024 est.
- Land area
- 266.4 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Blue Ridge 86%, Piedmont 14%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Page County1,430 ft
- Madison County1,000 ft
- Rappahannock County990 ft
- Warren County930 ft
- Fauquier County530 ft
- Culpeper County390 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia36th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States1,424th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Marshall3,373 ft
- Pass Mountain3,050 ft
- Catlett Mountain, Rappahannock County2,980 ft
- Compton Peak2,920 ft
- The Peak, Rappahannock County2,910 ft
All 4 towns in Rappahannock County by typical elevation
- Chester Gap1,470 ft
- Sperryville760 ft
- Washington680 ft
- Flint Hill620 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. 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.