Alamance County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m820 ft 250 m740 ft 225 m590 ft 180 m430 ft 130 m350 ft 110 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Alamance County averages about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 350 ft on the west side to 970 ft on Cane Creek Mountains.
Average elevation
610 ft 185 m
all land inside the county
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on Cane Creek Mountains
Lowest
350 ft 110 m
on the west side
Alamance County spans about 620 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Cane Creek Mountains (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 350 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
28 mi south to north through Burlington.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 183,040 2024 est.
- Land area
- 423.5 sq mi + 10.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 432 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Guilford County780 ft
- Rockingham County720 ft
- Randolph County640 ft
- Alamance County610 ft
- Orange County580 ft
- Caswell County580 ft
- Chatham County440 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina42nd highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,193rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cane Creek Mountains970 ft
- Stony Creek Mountain913 ft
- Bass Mountain870 ft
All 14 towns in Alamance County by typical elevation
- Elon690 ft
- Gibsonville partly680 ft
- Altamahaw660 ft
- Mebane650 ft
- Ossipee640 ft
- Glen Raven640 ft
- Green Level630 ft
- Burlington630 ft
- Woodlawn600 ft
- Alamance590 ft
- Graham590 ft
- Haw River580 ft
- Swepsonville570 ft
- Saxapahaw500 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.