Springfield, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
310 ft 95 m260 ft 80 m240 ft 70 m190 ft 55 m140 ft 40 m110 ft 35 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
Springfield sits at about 240 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
240 ft 75 m
most residents: 220–280 ft
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the south side
Highest
310 ft 95 m
on the north side
Average
240 ft 70 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Springfield spans about 200 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 | 240 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 310 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 110 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Springfield | 250 ft75 m |
| Airport (DCA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 14 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 31,339 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,995 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7893° N, 77.1872° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl (DCA) 14 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 22150 22151
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Annandale310 ft
- Kings Park300 ft
- West Springfield280 ft
- North Springfield270 ft
- Ravensworth250 ft
- Springfield240 ft
- Lincolnia240 ft
- Franconia220 ft
- Kingstowne200 ft
- Newington180 ft
- Hayfield62 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia493rd highest of 700
- Towns in Fairfax County52nd highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Old Rag Mountain3,285 ft
- Upton Hill410 ft
- Munson Hill370 ft
- Shooters Hill, Alexandria city190 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.
- Springfield 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.