Amherst County, VA

Measured terrain around the Amherst County centroid

Centroid elevation

376

m (1,234 ft)

Terrain relief

416

m spread (p95−p5, ~20–40 km window)

The county center sits at about 376 m above sea level. Elevation across the sampled window spreads 416 m — mountainous terrain by our banding (flat <30 m · gently rolling 30–100 m · hilly 100–300 m · mountainous >300 m). These are county-scale context, not parcel measurements — a specific parcel gets its own slope, flood and usable-acreage readings when analyzed.

Elevation measured 2026-07-21 from the AWS Terrain Tiles (terrarium encoding, z10).

Data available for Amherst County

• No free owner records. Virginia does not publish a free statewide parcel-and-owner dataset, so LandBenchmark cannot show who owns a parcel in Amherst County. The county assessor's office is the authoritative source. Every measured signal below is unaffected.
• No township/range legal description. Virginia is a metes-and-bounds state with no PLSS grid.
• FEMA flood zones, wetlands, soil survey and NCCPI soil productivity — the federal layers, all free and all available here.
• 56 measured signals from satellite imagery and public records — slope and usable acreage, observed surface water, vegetation trend, wildfire and seismic hazard, access and neighboring land use. Each one cites its method, its source, and the date it was observed.

LandBenchmark has no listings and does not know what is for sale in Amherst County. It analyses a parcel you point it at. It is an automated Phase-1 desk screen, not a survey, a flood determination, or a substitute for on-site inspection.