Rectortown, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Rectortown sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 530–550 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the south side
Highest
580 ft 180 m
on the southeast side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rectortown spans about 110 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 580 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 470 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rectortown | 520 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 121 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 190 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9212° N, 77.8614° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Goose Creek → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 20115
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Skyland Estates1,340 ft
- Shenandoah Farms910 ft
- Paris740 ft
- Bull Run Mountain Estates690 ft
- Marshall640 ft
- The Plains600 ft
- Upperville540 ft
- Rectortown540 ft
- Middleburg470 ft
- New Baltimore440 ft
- Aldie330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia313th highest of 700
- Towns in Fauquier County6th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Man4,011 ft
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Mill Mountain3,300 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 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.
- Rectortown 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.