Sherando, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,190 ft 670 m1,980 ft 605 m1,880 ft 575 m1,670 ft 510 m1,460 ft 445 m1,360 ft 415 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
Sherando sits at about 1,500 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,430–1,570 ft
Lowest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the north side
Highest
2,190 ft 670 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sherando spans about 830 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 | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,190 ft670 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sherando | 1,450 ft445 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Nearest peak Devils Knob, 3.2 mi south of the CDP boundary | 3,850 ft1,175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Augusta County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 696 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 98 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9812° N, 78.9539° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- South Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 22952 24477
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wintergreen3,130 ft
- Greenville1,690 ft
- Jolivue1,540 ft
- Sherando1,500 ft
- Stuarts Draft1,460 ft
- Lyndhurst1,390 ft
- Fishersville1,370 ft
- Dooms1,350 ft
- Waynesboro1,340 ft
- Afton1,140 ft
- Nellysford750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia124th highest of 700
- Towns in Augusta County7th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Pond Mountain4,030 ft
- Chimney Rock, Nelson County3,950 ft
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 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).
- 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.
- Sherando 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.