Rockbridge County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,060 ft 1,235 m3,210 ft 980 m2,790 ft 850 m1,950 ft 595 m1,110 ft 340 m690 ft 210 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
Rockbridge County averages about 1,620 ft (495 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 690 ft on the south side to 4,060 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,620 ft 495 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,060 ft 1,235 m
on the east side
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the south side
Rockbridge County spans about 3,370 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 | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 4,060 ft1,235 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through East Lexington.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 22,368 2024 est.
- Land area
- 596.5 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 37 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 84%, Blue Ridge 16%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Bath County2,220 ft
- Alleghany County2,050 ft
- Augusta County1,890 ft
- Rockbridge County1,620 ft
- Botetourt County1,510 ft
- Amherst County1,130 ft
- Nelson County1,110 ft
- Lexington city1,060 ft
- Bedford County1,060 ft
- Buena Vista city970 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia25th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States778th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Big House Mountain3,630 ft
- Big Butt3,430 ft
- Nettle Mountain3,400 ft
- Aggies Mountain3,380 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,360 ft
All 4 towns in Rockbridge County by typical elevation
- Fairfield1,640 ft
- Goshen1,450 ft
- East Lexington1,040 ft
- Glasgow750 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.
- 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, 670 ft at 37.6596° N, 79.4529° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.