Shipman, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m990 ft 305 m920 ft 280 m760 ft 235 m610 ft 185 m540 ft 165 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
Shipman sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 640–730 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shipman spans about 610 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 540 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shipman | 630 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nelson County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 492 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 183 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7238° N, 78.8392° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 22971
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wintergreen3,130 ft
- Sherando1,500 ft
- Lovingston820 ft
- Nellysford750 ft
- Arrington700 ft
- Amherst690 ft
- North Garden670 ft
- Shipman650 ft
- Esmont530 ft
- Schuyler490 ft
- Yogaville470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia285th highest of 700
- Towns in Nelson County6th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Pond Mountain4,030 ft
- Chimney Rock, Nelson County3,950 ft
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Tobacco Row Mountain2,936 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.
- Shipman 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.