Spotsylvania County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m410 ft 125 m340 ft 105 m200 ft 60 m68 ft 21 m0 ft 0 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
Spotsylvania County averages about 290 ft (90 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 0 ft on the east side to 540 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
290 ft 90 m
all land inside the county
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the west side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the east side
Spotsylvania County spans about 540 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 | 290 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Spotsylvania Courthouse.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 152,021 2024 est.
- Land area
- 401.9 sq mi + 12.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 378 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Orange County430 ft
- Culpeper County390 ft
- Louisa County370 ft
- Spotsylvania County290 ft
- Stafford County210 ft
- Hanover County190 ft
- Caroline County170 ft
- Fredericksburg city150 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia60th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States2,638th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hamiltons Thicket450 ft
- Motts Run Hill270 ft
All 2 towns in Spotsylvania County by typical elevation
- Lake Wilderness380 ft
- Spotsylvania Courthouse290 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, −67 ft at 38.2074° N, 77.5579° 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.