Elevation and land cover, without the raster pile

USGS 3DEP hillshade and NLCD land cover for Henrico County, Virginia — served from public tiles, not a national download. The same layers we join in PostGIS and style in QGIS.

Click the map to pin land cover + elevation vs the county. Filter by NLCD class, switch basemap in Layers, or zoom in for satellite detail.

01 — Hillshade

Read the ground first

A true USGS 3DEP hillshade — ImageServer Hillshade Gray (azimuth 315°, altitude 45°), not a percent-clip elevation stretch — alpha-masked to Henrico County (FIPS 51087). The dashboard card still reports min / mean / max feet MSL from the same county 3DEP clip. Esri World Hillshade stays as a faint underlay when you zoom.

02 — Land cover

NLCD, as published

Annual NLCD Collection 1.2 land cover for map year 2025, GetMap-composited and clipped to the same Henrico polygon. Developed, forest, wetland, and agriculture at 30 m. The dashboard bars are a county histogram from a WCS clip of the same 2025 layer, rolled up to seven groups. Developed share in Henrico rose about 1.9 percentage points from 2016 to 2025 (Annual NLCD). No CONUS GeoTIFF on this host.

03 — Together

Classes on the terrain

County hillshade under clipped NLCD. The blend strip pairs developed share with the elevation range — the same clip-and-summarize step we do in PostGIS, shown here as a quiet dashboard card.

Hillshade

USGS 3DEP Hillshade Gray · clipped to Henrico Click the map to pin land cover + elevation

Class filter

Tap a class to focus · click the map to identify

Basemap

Dark gray Satellite Topo

Overlays

Hillshade NLCD land cover Place labels