North Carolina topographic maps
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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

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

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

Hargraves Beach
United States > North Carolina > Dare County > Southern Shores
Average elevation: 7 ft

Wedgewood West
United States > North Carolina > Alamance County > Burlington
Average elevation: 666 ft

Boiling Spring Lake Dam
United States > North Carolina > Brunswick County > Boiling Spring Lakes
Average elevation: 46 ft

Ballantyne's Backyard
United States > North Carolina > Mecklenburg County > Charlotte
Average elevation: 600 ft

Country Club Estates
United States > North Carolina > Alamance County > Burlington
Average elevation: 640 ft

Loch Lommond
United States > North Carolina > Cumberland County > Fayetteville
Average elevation: 230 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

Cherokee County Community
United States > North Carolina > Cherokee County
Average elevation: 2,329 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

Hoopers Creek
United States > North Carolina > Henderson County > Fletcher
Average elevation: 2,221 ft

Julian Price Memorial Park
United States > North Carolina > Watauga County
Average elevation: 3,415 ft

Shadowlawn
United States > North Carolina > Cumberland County > Fayetteville
Average elevation: 187 ft

Appalachian Ski Mountain Dam
United States > North Carolina > Watauga County
Average elevation: 3,652 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

Reynolda Village
United States > North Carolina > Forsyth County > Winston-Salem
Average elevation: 912 ft

Tuckaseegee Park
United States > North Carolina > Mecklenburg County > Charlotte
Average elevation: 764 ft

Atwood Acres
United States > North Carolina > Forsyth County > Winston-Salem
Average elevation: 791 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

Oak Ridge Park
United States > North Carolina > Richmond County > East Rockingham
Average elevation: 279 ft

Hideaway Mountain Lake Dam
United States > North Carolina > Cherokee County
Average elevation: 2,159 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