McDowell County topographic map

The Appalachian Mountains (French: Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rocky…

Average elevation: 4,800 ft

Average elevation: 0 ft

The Appalachian Mountains (French: Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rocky…

Average elevation: 4,800 ft

Mount Mitchell, known in Cherokee as Attakulla, is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland eastern North America. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles (31 km) northeast of…

Average elevation: 5,719 ft

Average elevation: 535 ft

Average elevation: 3,510 ft

Average elevation: 3,885 ft

Average elevation: 1,962 ft

Average elevation: 2,270 ft

Average elevation: 2,510 ft

Average elevation: 650 ft

Average elevation: 62 ft

Average elevation: 679 ft

Valle Crucis is located at the banks of Dutch Creek and Watauga River, at an elevation of 2,677 feet (816 m) above sea level. To its north and east is Tester Mountain and to its south and west is Valle Mountain. The community is also within the Pisgah National Forest boundary, which limits some development in…

Average elevation: 2,966 ft

Average elevation: 3 ft

Highlands was founded in 1875 after its two founders, Samuel Truman Kelsey and Clinton Carter Hutchinson, drew lines from Chicago to Savannah and from New Orleans to New York City. They felt that the place where these lines met would eventually become a great trading center and commercial crossroads. Highlands…

Average elevation: 3,576 ft

Average elevation: 1,007 ft

Average elevation: 3 ft

Average elevation: 3,304 ft

Average elevation: 2,293 ft

Average elevation: 30 ft

Average elevation: 0 ft

Average elevation: 3 ft

Average elevation: 4,406 ft

Average elevation: 4,902 ft

Average elevation: 3,868 ft

Average elevation: 1,549 ft

Average elevation: 1,201 ft

Average elevation: 709 ft

Average elevation: 3,084 ft

Average elevation: 3,117 ft

Average elevation: 2,713 ft

Average elevation: 3,048 ft

Average elevation: 2,723 ft

Mount Mitchell, known in Cherokee as Attakulla, is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland eastern North America. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina; in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians, about 19 miles (31 km) northeast of…

Average elevation: 5,719 ft

Average elevation: 3,727 ft

Average elevation: 486 ft

Average elevation: 751 ft

Average elevation: 3 ft

Average elevation: 2,877 ft

Average elevation: 860 ft

Average elevation: 3 ft

Average elevation: 1,089 ft

Average elevation: 771 ft

Average elevation: 335 ft

Average elevation: 3,136 ft

Average elevation: 1,027 ft

Average elevation: 3,638 ft

Average elevation: 3,054 ft

Average elevation: 39 ft

Average elevation: 194 ft

Average elevation: 246 ft

Average elevation: 2,287 ft

Average elevation: 712 ft

Average elevation: 745 ft

Average elevation: 187 ft

Average elevation: 899 ft

Average elevation: 3,035 ft

Average elevation: 902 ft

Average elevation: 1,033 ft

Average elevation: 581 ft

Average elevation: 13 ft

Average elevation: 1,726 ft

Average elevation: 2,037 ft

Average elevation: 13 ft

Average elevation: 2,756 ft

Average elevation: 1,545 ft

Average elevation: 351 ft

Average elevation: 1,070 ft

Average elevation: 269 ft

Average elevation: 673 ft

Average elevation: 794 ft

Average elevation: 180 ft

Average elevation: 2,946 ft

Average elevation: 791 ft

Average elevation: 705 ft

Average elevation: 3,681 ft

Average elevation: 2,913 ft

Average elevation: 771 ft

Average elevation: 5,203 ft

Average elevation: 1,375 ft

Average elevation: 2,910 ft

Average elevation: 3,274 ft

Average elevation: 2,746 ft

Average elevation: 2,221 ft

Average elevation: 2,946 ft

Terrell is located at 35°35′20.72″N 80°58′39.5″W / 35.5890889°N 80.977639°W / 35.5890889; -80.977639 within area code 828, ZIP code 28682, and FIPS place code 67180. It sits at an elevation of 289 m (948 ft).

Average elevation: 810 ft

Average elevation: 741 ft

Average elevation: 696 ft

Average elevation: 850 ft

Average elevation: 850 ft

Average elevation: 2,047 ft

Average elevation: 876 ft

Cape Hatteras /ˈhætərəs/ is a bend in a thin, broken strand of islands in North Carolina that arch out into the Atlantic Ocean away from the US mainland, then back toward the mainland, creating a series of sheltered islands between the Outer Banks and the mainland. For thousands of years these barrier…

Average elevation: 3 ft

Average elevation: 1,883 ft

Average elevation: 925 ft

Average elevation: 932 ft

Average elevation: 2,192 ft

Average elevation: 853 ft

Average elevation: 2,126 ft