Winchester, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 290 m870 ft 265 m830 ft 255 m760 ft 230 m680 ft 210 m640 ft 195 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
Winchester sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 700–810 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the south side
Highest
940 ft 290 m
on the northwest side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside city limits
Winchester spans about 300 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 940 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Winchester | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (OKV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi south of the city limits | 726 ft221 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Independent city in Virginia, United States
- Population
- 27,800 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,024 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1857° N, 78.1633° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Opequon Creek → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Winchester Regional (OKV) 726 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 22601
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shawneeland1,080 ft
- Lake Holiday910 ft
- Stephens City760 ft
- Winchester740 ft
- Gore730 ft
- Middletown710 ft
- Berryville600 ft
- Inwood, WV590 ft
- Boyce580 ft
- Brucetown570 ft
- Middleway, WV520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia266th highest of 700
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- Mill Mountain3,300 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 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).
- 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, 640 ft at 39.1693° N, 78.1576° 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.