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Guilford County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 784 ft

Greenville

United States > North Carolina > Pitt County

Average elevation: 52 ft

Watauga County

United States > North Carolina

Watauga County is extremely mountainous, and all of the county's terrain is located within the Appalachian Mountains range. The highest point in the county is Calloway Peak, the highest peak of Grandfather Mountain (shared with the adjacent counties of Avery and Caldwell), which rises to 5,964 feet (1,818…

Average elevation: 3,228 ft

Highlands

United States > North Carolina > Macon County > Highlands

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

Trinity

United States > North Carolina > Union County

Average elevation: 623 ft

Blue Ridge Parkway

United States > North Carolina > Watauga County

The parkway has been the most visited unit of the National Park System every year since 1946 except four (1949, 2013, 2016 and 2019).[4][5] Land on either side of the road is owned and maintained by the National Park Service, and in many places parkway land is bordered by United States Forest Service property.…

Average elevation: 1,654 ft

Brunswick County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 30 ft

Pitt County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 52 ft

Zebulon

United States > North Carolina > Wake County

Zebulon is located in the northeast central region of North Carolina, where the North American Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions meet. This area is known as the "Fall Line" because it marks the elevation inland at which waterfalls begin to appear in creeks and rivers. Its central Piedmont location…

Average elevation: 299 ft

Onslow County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 36 ft

Tysonville

United States > North Carolina > Wake County > Raleigh

Average elevation: 387 ft

Mill Grove

United States > North Carolina > Durham County > Durham

Average elevation: 364 ft

Tusk

United States > North Carolina > Carteret County

Average elevation: 7 ft

Long Bay

United States > North Carolina > Bladen County

Average elevation: 69 ft

Banner Elk

United States > North Carolina > Avery County

Banner Elk is located in North America's humid continental climate zone due to its elevation, which gives it a climate more like that of Altoona, Pennsylvania, than Asheville, North Carolina, during the winter. During the summer the temperatures are much like a mountain lake town in New Hampshire. The town…

Average elevation: 3,819 ft

Beard

United States > North Carolina > Cumberland County > Eastover

Average elevation: 102 ft

Beulah

United States > North Carolina > Polk County

Average elevation: 942 ft

Mount Ulla

United States > North Carolina > Rowan County

Average elevation: 781 ft

Engelhard

United States > North Carolina > Hyde County

Average elevation: 3 ft

Doughton

United States > North Carolina > Wilkes County

Average elevation: 1,637 ft

Ashland

United States > North Carolina > Ashe County

Average elevation: 3,219 ft

Bald Head Island

United States > North Carolina > Brunswick County

Located at the tip of Cape Fear and residing at the convergence of the Cape Fear River and Atlantic Gulf Stream, the land mass of Bald Head Island ends, trailing off into 30 miles (48 km) of treacherous sand bars known as Frying Pan Shoals. In this area, large sand bars seasonally emerge from and subsequently…

Average elevation: 0 ft

Willard

United States > North Carolina > Pender County

Average elevation: 52 ft

Bethel Hill

United States > North Carolina > Person County

Average elevation: 545 ft

McAdenville

United States > North Carolina > Gaston County

Average elevation: 689 ft

Union Grove

United States > North Carolina > Iredell County

Average elevation: 1,030 ft

Pinehurst

United States > North Carolina > Moore County

Average elevation: 453 ft

Mars Hill

United States > North Carolina > Madison County

The town has an elevation of 2,330 feet (710 m), so the climate of the area is considerably cooler than might be expected of a town in a southern state.

Average elevation: 2,323 ft

Swiss

United States > North Carolina > Yancey County

Average elevation: 3,068 ft

West Hills

United States > North Carolina > Durham County > Durham

Average elevation: 476 ft

Buncombe County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 2,753 ft

Hyco Lake

United States > North Carolina > Caswell County

Average elevation: 502 ft

Sophia

United States > North Carolina > Randolph County

Average elevation: 745 ft

Highlands

United States > North Carolina > Macon County

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: 3,661 ft

Ocracoke

United States > North Carolina > Hyde County > Ocracoke

Average elevation: 3 ft

Longs Store

United States > North Carolina > Person County

Average elevation: 551 ft

Seven Lakes

United States > North Carolina > Moore County

Average elevation: 551 ft

Greenhill Lake

United States > North Carolina > Surry County

Average elevation: 1,207 ft

Dudley

United States > North Carolina > Wayne County

Average elevation: 174 ft

Smyrna

United States > North Carolina > Carteret County

Average elevation: 7 ft

Wingate

United States > North Carolina > Union County

Average elevation: 554 ft

Zirconia

United States > North Carolina > Henderson County

Average elevation: 2,234 ft

Isle Forest

United States > North Carolina > Wake County > Raleigh

Average elevation: 371 ft

Mountain Island Lake

United States > North Carolina > Gaston County > Mount Holly

Mountain Island Lake is a lake northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina created in 1924 to coincide with the building of Mountain Island Hydroelectric Station. It is named after the mountain which appears as an island in the lake, and the surrounding area is identified by the lake's name. The shape of the lake…

Average elevation: 709 ft

Scaly Mountain

United States > North Carolina > Macon County

Average elevation: 4,032 ft

Chapel Hill

United States > North Carolina > Orange County

Average elevation: 413 ft

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