Waterford, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 145 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m390 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m340 ft 105 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Waterford sits at about 410 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
410 ft 125 m
most residents: 360–440 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the northwest side
Highest
470 ft 145 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
400 ft 120 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Waterford spans about 130 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 | 410 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 470 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waterford | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (JYO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi south of the CDP boundary | 390 ft119 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 181 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 500 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1868° N, 77.6100° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Leesburg Exec (JYO) 390 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 20197
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Round Hill540 ft
- Purcellville530 ft
- Hillsboro520 ft
- Hamilton510 ft
- Lovettsville490 ft
- Rosemont, MD480 ft
- Brunswick, MD430 ft
- Waterford410 ft
- Leesburg330 ft
- Lansdowne320 ft
- Point of Rocks, MD290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia368th highest of 700
- Towns in Loudoun County7th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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.
- Waterford 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. All public domain.