Warren County, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,480 ft 1,060 m2,710 ft 825 m2,330 ft 710 m1,560 ft 475 m800 ft 245 m420 ft 125 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
Warren County averages about 930 ft (280 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 420 ft on the northeast side to 3,477 ft on Hogback Mountain.
Average elevation
930 ft 280 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,477 ft 1,060 m
on Hogback Mountain
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the northeast side
Warren County spans about 3,060 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 | 930 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Hogback Mountain (NGS survey height) | 3,477 ft1,060 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 420 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
16 mi south to north through Front Royal.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 42,461 2024 est.
- Land area
- 214.6 sq mi + 3.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 198 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 76%, Blue Ridge 24%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Page County1,430 ft
- Shenandoah County1,260 ft
- Rappahannock County990 ft
- Warren County930 ft
- Frederick County920 ft
- Clarke County650 ft
- Fauquier County530 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Virginia37th highest of 94
- Counties in the United States1,542nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hogback Mountain3,477 ft
- South Marshall3,210 ft
- Dickey Hill2,434 ft
- Meneka Peak2,390 ft
- High Knob, Warren County2,380 ft
All 6 towns in Warren County by typical elevation
- Chester Gap partly1,470 ft
- Skyland Estates1,340 ft
- Apple Mountain Lake950 ft
- Shenandoah Farms910 ft
- Front Royal590 ft
- Shenandoah Shores570 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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, 370 ft at 38.9574° N, 78.1935° 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.