West Point, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
56 ft 17 m42 ft 13 m35 ft 11 m21 ft 6 m7 ft 2 m0 ft 0 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Point sits at about 12 ft (4 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
12 ft 4 m
most residents: 7–28 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the northeast side
Highest
56 ft 17 m
on the northwest side
Average
12 ft 4 m
all land inside town limits
West Point spans about 56 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 | 12 ft4 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 56 ft17 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Point | 10 ft3 m |
| Airport (FYJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi east of the town limits | 20 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 12 ft4 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in King William County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 3,529 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 699 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5315° N, 76.7964° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- York River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Middle Peninsula Regional (FYJ) 20 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 23181
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- King William120 ft
- New Kent100 ft
- Williamsburg76 ft
- Gloucester Courthouse46 ft
- Saluda45 ft
- Charles City39 ft
- Irvington29 ft
- King and Queen Court House26 ft
- Weems16 ft
- Urbanna15 ft
- West Point12 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia677th highest of 700
- Towns in King William Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dickeys Hill150 ft
- Mount Folly120 ft
- Minitree Hill110 ft
- Church Hill110 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, −2 ft at 37.5685° N, 76.7946° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.