Wintergreen, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,850 ft 1,175 m3,120 ft 950 m2,760 ft 840 m2,030 ft 620 m1,310 ft 400 m950 ft 290 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wintergreen sits at about 3,130 ft (955 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,130 ft 955 m
most residents: 3,090–3,670 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,850 ft 1,175 m
on Devils Knob
Average
2,630 ft 800 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Wintergreen spans about 2,900 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 | 3,130 ft955 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Devils Knob | 3,850 ft1,175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Average of all land | 2,630 ft800 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the middle of Wintergreen.
Altitude Effects
What 3,130 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.2 °F96.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.7 inHg (90.4 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nelson and Augusta counties, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 346 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.8 sq mi
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9242° N, 78.9461° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Rockfish River → James River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 22958 22967
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wintergreen3,130 ft
- Greenville1,690 ft
- Sherando1,500 ft
- Stuarts Draft1,460 ft
- Lyndhurst1,390 ft
- Fishersville1,370 ft
- Dooms1,350 ft
- Waynesboro1,340 ft
- Afton1,140 ft
- Lovingston820 ft
- Nellysford750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia2nd highest of 700
- Towns in Nelson Countyhighest of 7
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 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Wintergreen 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.