Staunton, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,950 ft 595 m1,780 ft 540 m1,690 ft 515 m1,510 ft 460 m1,330 ft 405 m1,250 ft 380 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Staunton sits at about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,540 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,430–1,670 ft
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the east side
Highest
1,950 ft 595 m
on Betsey Bell
Average
1,490 ft 455 m
all land inside city limits
Staunton spans about 700 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 | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Betsey Bell | 1,950 ft595 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Staunton | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Airport (SHD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,201 ft366 m |
| Average of all land | 1,490 ft455 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 26,361 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,323 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1496° N, 79.0717° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- South Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Shenandoah Valley Regional (SHD) 1,201 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 24401
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Middlebrook1,930 ft
- Greenville1,690 ft
- Staunton1,540 ft
- Jolivue1,540 ft
- Stuarts Draft1,460 ft
- Churchville1,430 ft
- Lyndhurst1,390 ft
- Fishersville1,370 ft
- Mount Sidney1,340 ft
- Verona1,280 ft
- New Hope1,240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia121st highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hogback4,450 ft
- Little Bald Knob4,350 ft
- Hardscrabble Knob4,281 ft
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Crawford Knob3,730 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.