Ashe County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,210 ft 1,585 m4,440 ft 1,355 m4,060 ft 1,240 m3,300 ft 1,005 m2,530 ft 770 m2,150 ft 655 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
Ashe County averages about 3,210 ft (975 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,150 ft on the southeast side to 5,207 ft on The Peak.
Average elevation
3,210 ft 975 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,207 ft 1,587 m
on The Peak
Lowest
2,150 ft 655 m
on the southeast side
Ashe County spans about 3,060 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 | 3,210 ft975 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on The Peak (NGS survey height) | 5,207 ft1,587 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,150 ft655 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Jefferson.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 27,266 2024 est.
- Land area
- 426.3 sq mi + 3.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 64 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Watauga County3,320 ft
- Ashe County3,210 ft
- Grayson County, VA3,020 ft
- Johnson County, TN2,920 ft
- Alleghany County2,860 ft
- Wilkes County1,490 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina8th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States348th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bluff Mountain5,080 ft
- Three Top Mountain5,010 ft
- Pond Mountain4,940 ft
- Phoenix Mountain4,718 ft
- Mount Jefferson4,650 ft
All 3 towns in Ashe County by typical elevation
- West Jefferson3,090 ft
- Jefferson2,990 ft
- Lansing2,810 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.