Waynesboro, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,860 ft 565 m1,710 ft 520 m1,630 ft 495 m1,480 ft 450 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
Waynesboro sits at about 1,340 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,340 ft 405 m
most residents: 1,300–1,400 ft
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,860 ft 565 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,370 ft 420 m
all land inside city limits
Waynesboro spans about 610 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 | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,860 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waynesboro | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Airport (SHD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi north of the city limits | 1,201 ft366 m |
| Average of all land | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Nearest peak Devils Knob, 8.1 mi south of the city limits | 3,850 ft1,175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 23,498 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,570 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0685° N, 78.8895° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- South Fork Shenandoah River → Shenandoah River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Shenandoah Valley Regional (SHD) 1,201 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 22980
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jolivue1,540 ft
- Sherando1,500 ft
- Stuarts Draft1,460 ft
- Lyndhurst1,390 ft
- Fishersville1,370 ft
- Dooms1,350 ft
- Waynesboro1,340 ft
- Crimora1,290 ft
- New Hope1,240 ft
- Afton1,140 ft
- Crozet680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia156th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Pond Mountain4,030 ft
- Chimney Rock, Nelson County3,950 ft
- Devils Knob3,850 ft
- Big Flat Mountain3,390 ft
- Heard Mountain2,399 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.