Rockingham County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,380 ft 1,335 m3,490 ft 1,065 m3,040 ft 925 m2,140 ft 655 m1,240 ft 380 m800 ft 245 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
Rockingham County averages about 1,710 ft (520 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 800 ft on the southeast side to 4,384 ft on Flagpole Knob.
Average elevation
1,710 ft 520 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,384 ft 1,336 m
on Flagpole Knob
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the southeast side
Rockingham County spans about 3,580 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 | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Flagpole Knob (NGS survey height) | 4,384 ft1,336 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
29 mi west to east through Bridgewater.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 87,674 2024 est.
- Land area
- 849.8 sq mi + 4.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 103 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge 94%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Pendleton County, WV2,590 ft
- Augusta County1,890 ft
- Hardy County, WV1,750 ft
- Rockingham County1,710 ft
- Page County1,430 ft
- Harrisonburg city1,370 ft
- Shenandoah County1,260 ft
- Greene County1,170 ft
- Albemarle County750 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia24th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States731st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Flagpole Knob4,384 ft
- Dundore Mountain4,090 ft
- Meadow Knob, Rockingham County3,890 ft
- Feedstone Mountain3,870 ft
- Lairds Knob3,270 ft
All 15 towns in Rockingham County by typical elevation
- Singers Glen1,670 ft
- Massanetta Springs1,390 ft
- Massanutten1,370 ft
- Keezletown1,360 ft
- Belmont Estates1,340 ft
- Linville1,310 ft
- Dayton1,240 ft
- Mount Crawford1,200 ft
- Bridgewater1,190 ft
- McGaheysville1,170 ft
- Broadway1,110 ft
- Grottoes1,100 ft
- Port Republic1,100 ft
- Timberville1,060 ft
- Elkton1,010 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.