Albemarle, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 205 m590 ft 180 m550 ft 170 m470 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m350 ft 105 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Albemarle sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 470–580 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the southeast side
Highest
680 ft 205 m
on the west side
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits
Albemarle spans about 330 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 680 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Albemarle | 480 ft145 m |
| Airport (VUJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi northeast of the city limits | 609 ft186 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Stanly County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 17,344 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 953 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.3501° N, 80.2001° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Rocky River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Stanly County (VUJ) 609 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28001
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New London670 ft
- Misenheimer660 ft
- Millingport650 ft
- Richfield640 ft
- Mount Pleasant620 ft
- Red Cross620 ft
- Badin550 ft
- Albemarle540 ft
- Oakboro530 ft
- Aquadale460 ft
- Norwood370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina321st highest of 782
- Towns in Stanly County9th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Morrow Mountain904 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Stanly County860 ft
- Hattaway Mountain840 ft
- Fall Mountain740 ft
- Stony Mountain, Stanly County730 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.