Alleghany County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,160 ft 1,270 m3,510 ft 1,070 m3,190 ft 970 m2,540 ft 775 m1,890 ft 575 m1,570 ft 475 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
Alleghany County averages about 2,860 ft (870 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,570 ft on the southeast side to 4,160 ft on Peach Bottom Mountain.
Average elevation
2,860 ft 870 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,160 ft 1,270 m
on Peach Bottom Mountain
Lowest
1,570 ft 475 m
on the southeast side
Alleghany County spans about 2,590 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 | 2,860 ft870 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Peach Bottom Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,160 ft1,270 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,570 ft475 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.6 mi south to north through Sparta.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 11,379 2024 est.
- Land area
- 234.8 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 88%, Atlantic Ocean 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Ashe County3,210 ft
- Grayson County, VA3,020 ft
- Alleghany County2,860 ft
- Wilkes County1,490 ft
- Surry County1,220 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina10th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States407th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,160 ft
- Fender Mountain4,000 ft
- Cheek Mountain3,940 ft
- Betsy Peak3,880 ft
- Bullhead Mountain, Alleghany County3,860 ft
The one town in Alleghany County
- Sparta2,930 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.