Bent Creek, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,010 ft 915 m2,770 ft 845 m2,650 ft 810 m2,420 ft 735 m2,180 ft 665 m2,060 ft 630 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bent Creek sits at about 2,190 ft (670 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,190 ft 670 m
most residents: 2,150–2,220 ft
Lowest
2,060 ft 630 m
on the south side
Highest
3,010 ft 915 m
on Rice Pinnacle
Average
2,290 ft 700 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bent Creek spans about 950 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 2,190 ft670 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Rice Pinnacle | 3,010 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bent Creek | 2,200 ft670 m |
| Airport (AVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 2,164 ft660 m |
| Average of all land | 2,290 ft700 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Pisgah, 8.8 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 5,700 ft1,740 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,402 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 634 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.5090° N, 82.6079° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- French Broad River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Asheville Regional (AVL) 2,164 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28806
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Royal Pines2,340 ft
- Hoopers Creek2,260 ft
- Avery Creek2,230 ft
- Biltmore Forest2,200 ft
- Bent Creek2,190 ft
- Mills River2,190 ft
- Asheville2,160 ft
- Mountain Home2,160 ft
- Fletcher2,140 ft
- Woodfin2,140 ft
- Emma2,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina50th highest of 782
- Towns in Buncombe County9th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Pisgah5,700 ft
- Little Pisgah Mountain4,410 ft
- Flat Top4,370 ft
- Ratcliff Mountain4,360 ft
- Bearwallow Mountain4,230 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Bent Creek is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.