Beaufort, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

33 ft 10 m25 ft 8 m21 ft 6 m12 ft 4 m4 ft 1 m0 ft 0 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Beaufort sits at about 9 ft (3 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

9 ft 3 m

most residents: 7–12 ft

Lowest

0 ft 0 m

at sea level on the Newport River

Highest

20 ft 6 m

on the east side

Average

8 ft 2 m

all land inside town limits

Beaufort is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

7% of Beaufort's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 12% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	9 ft3 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side	20 ft6 m
Lowest point Where the land meets the Newport River	0 ft0 m
Town center USGS map point for Beaufort	9 ft3 m
Airport (MRH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	10 ft3 m
Average of all land	8 ft2 m

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States
Population: 4,895 2024 est.
Land area: 5.2 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
Density: 942 per sq mi
Coordinates: 34.7182° N, 76.6638° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Onslow Bay
Airport: Michael J Smith Field (MRH) 10 ft
ZIP codes 1: 28516

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Carolina735th highest of 782
Towns in Carteret County11th highest of 18

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

High Hill, Carteret County22 ft
Bald Hill10 ft
Diamond City Hills6 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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 tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.