Richmond County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

180 ft 55 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m66 ft 20 m22 ft 7 m0 ft 0 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Richmond County averages about 77 ft (24 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Menokin Bay to 180 ft on China Hill.

Average elevation

77 ft 24 m

all land inside the county

Highest

180 ft 55 m

on China Hill

Lowest

0 ft 0 m

at sea level on Menokin Bay

Richmond County spans about 180 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	77 ft24 m
Highest point Inside the county, on China Hill	180 ft55 m
Lowest point Where the land meets Menokin Bay	0 ft0 m

Elevation profile, south to north

12 mi south to north through Warsaw.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Virginia, United States
Population: 9,215 2024 est.
Land area: 191.5 sq mi + 24.9 sq mi water
Density: 48 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain 97%
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Essex County94 ft
Richmond County77 ft
Westmoreland County76 ft
Northumberland County54 ft
Lancaster County52 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Virginia80th highest of 94
Counties in the United States2,967th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

China Hill180 ft
Bald Eagle Hill170 ft
Finchs Hill150 ft
Rock Springs Hill150 ft
Sexton Hill150 ft

The one town in Richmond County

Warsaw120 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.
Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 180 ft at 38.0874° N, 76.8885° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
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, −1 ft at 37.9888° N, 76.8026° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
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.