Alexander County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,550 ft 775 m2,120 ft 645 m1,910 ft 580 m1,480 ft 450 m1,050 ft 320 m830 ft 255 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
Alexander County averages about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 830 ft on the south side to 2,550 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,550 ft 775 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the south side
Alexander County spans about 1,720 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,550 ft775 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
14 mi south to north through Bethlehem.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 36,693 2024 est.
- Land area
- 260.0 sq mi + 3.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 141 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
- Caldwell County1,510 ft
- Wilkes County1,490 ft
- Alexander County1,200 ft
- Catawba County970 ft
- Iredell County900 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina24th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States1,119th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Never Mountain1,990 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Alexander County1,980 ft
- Davis Mountain1,950 ft
- Little Brush Mountain1,930 ft
- Lowe Mountain, Alexander County1,920 ft
All 4 towns in Alexander County by typical elevation
- Taylorsville1,190 ft
- Hiddenite1,110 ft
- Bethlehem1,050 ft
- Stony Point1,020 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. 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.