Rivanna, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
450 ft 135 m400 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m330 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m260 ft 80 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rivanna sits at about 370 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 110 m
most residents: 320–380 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the south side
Highest
450 ft 135 m
on the north side
Average
350 ft 105 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rivanna spans about 190 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 | 370 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 450 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (CHO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.7 mi north of the CDP boundary | 640 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 350 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the middle of Rivanna.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 2,174 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 798 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9931° N, 78.3802° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Rivanna River → James River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Charlottesville-Albemarle (CHO) 640 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 22947
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- University of Virginia640 ft
- Earlysville560 ft
- Rio510 ft
- Piney Mountain490 ft
- Pantops490 ft
- Hollymead470 ft
- Charlottesville460 ft
- Keswick420 ft
- Lake Monticello380 ft
- Rivanna370 ft
- Palmyra330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia392nd highest of 700
- Towns in Albemarle Countylowest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Hightop3,593 ft
- Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 ft
- Peters Mountain1,800 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).
- 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, 260 ft at 37.9760° N, 78.3774° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Rivanna 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.