Saumsville, VA Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Saumsville, Virginia, shaded from 880 ft on the south side to 1,010 ft on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m980 ft 295 m960 ft 290 m930 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m880 ft 265 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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.
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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

Saumsville sits at about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)
960 ft 295 m
few residents
Lowest
880 ft 265 m
on the south side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside the CDP boundary

Saumsville spans about 130 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.

FigureElevation
Typical (all land)
Median of all land; too few residents to weight by
960 ft295 m
Highest point
Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
1,010 ft310 m
Lowest point
Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side
880 ft265 m
Town center
USGS map point for Saumsville
980 ft300 m
Average of all land960 ft295 m
Nearest peak
Mill Mountain, 7.4 mi northwest of the CDP boundary
3,300 ft1,005 m

Elevation profile, south to north

0.6 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Saumsville, Virginia, shaded from 880 ft on the south side to 1,010 ft on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
CDP boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 20 ft (6 m).
Location
Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States
Population
0 2020 Census
Land area
0.3 sq mi
Coordinates
38.9357° N, 78.4992° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Valley and Ridge
Drains to
North Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Alonzaville1,100 ft
  2. Columbia Furnace1,100 ft
  3. Saumsville960 ft
  4. Mount Olive930 ft
  5. Edinburg860 ft
  6. Woodstock850 ft
  7. Maurertown820 ft
  8. Fishers Hill770 ft
  9. Locust Grove730 ft
  10. Toms Brook710 ft
  11. Strasburg640 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Stony Man4,011 ft
  • Sugarloaf3,450 ft
  • Mill Mountain3,300 ft
  • Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
  • High Knob2,640 ft
How we measure
  • Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
  • 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.
  • Saumsville 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.