Yorktown, VA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
68 ft 21 m51 ft 16 m43 ft 13 m26 ft 8 m9 ft 3 m1 ft 0 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
Yorktown sits at about 54 ft (16 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
54 ft 16 m
most residents: 40–55 ft
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the west side
Highest
68 ft 21 m
on the south side
Average
33 ft 10 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Yorktown spans about 67 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 | 54 ft16 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 68 ft21 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Yorktown | 6 ft2 m |
| Airport (PHF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi south of the CDP boundary | 42 ft13 m |
| Average of all land | 33 ft10 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in York County, Virginia, United States
- Population
- 221 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 350 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2388° N, 76.5097° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newport News/Williamsburg International (PHF) 42 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 23690
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Williamsburg76 ft
- Yorktown54 ft
- Rushmere47 ft
- Gloucester Courthouse46 ft
- Newport News30 ft
- Gloucester Point29 ft
- Bethel Manor19 ft
- Scotland12 ft
- Hampton10 ft
- Mathews9 ft
- Poquoson5 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Virginia598th highest of 700
- Towns in York Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pig Hill71 ft
- Pigeon Quarter69 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.
- Yorktown 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.