Bald Head Island, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Bald Head Island, North Carolina, shaded from sea level level on the Atlantic Ocean to 41 ft on the southeast side
Elevation
40 ft 12 m30 ft 9 m25 ft 8 m15 ft 5 m5 ft 2 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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.
Village area
Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Bald Head Island sits at about 10 ft (3 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
10 ft 3 m
most residents: 3–19 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Atlantic Ocean
Highest
41 ft 12 m
on the southeast side
Average
6 ft 2 m
all land inside village limits

Bald Head Island spans about 41 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.

32% of Bald Head Island's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 16% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
10 ft3 m
Highest point
Inside village limits, on the southeast side
41 ft12 m
Lowest point
Where the land meets the Atlantic Ocean
0 ft0 m
Town center
USGS map point for Bald Head Island
10 ft3 m
Airport (SUT)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.4 mi northwest of the village limits
26 ft8 m
Average of all land6 ft2 m

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Bald Head Island, North Carolina, shaded from sea level level on the Atlantic Ocean to 41 ft on the southeast side
Village limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
Village in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States
Population
278 2024 est.
Land area
3.9 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
Density
72 per sq mi
Coordinates
33.8618° N, 77.9944° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Atlantic Ocean
Airport
Cape Fear Regional Jetport/Howie Franklin Field (SUT) 26 ft
ZIP codes 1
28461
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Boiling Spring Lakes47 ft
  2. Bolivia41 ft
  3. St. James40 ft
  4. Varnamtown28 ft
  5. Southport20 ft
  6. Oak Island16 ft
  7. Kure Beach16 ft
  8. Carolina Beach12 ft
  9. Bald Head Island10 ft
  10. Sea Breeze9 ft
  11. Caswell Beach1 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

How we measure
  • Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
  • Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −4 ft at 33.8896° N, 77.9918° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
  • 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 tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.