Boiling Spring Lakes, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, shaded from 5 ft on the northeast side to 63 ft on the northeast side
Elevation
63 ft 19 m48 ft 15 m41 ft 12 m26 ft 8 m12 ft 4 m5 ft 1 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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City area
Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Boiling Spring Lakes sits at about 47 ft (14 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
47 ft 14 m
most residents: 39–52 ft
Lowest
5 ft 1 m
on the northeast side
Highest
63 ft 19 m
on the northeast side
Average
50 ft 15 m
all land inside city limits

Boiling Spring Lakes spans about 58 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
47 ft14 m
Highest point
Inside city limits, on the northeast side
63 ft19 m
Lowest point
Inside city limits, on the northeast side
5 ft1 m
Town center
USGS map point for Boiling Spring Lakes
52 ft16 m
Airport (SUT)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi south of the city limits
26 ft8 m
Average of all land50 ft15 m

Elevation profile, west to east

5.4 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, shaded from 5 ft on the northeast side to 63 ft on the northeast side
City limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
City in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States
Population
6,738 2024 est.
Land area
23.7 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
Density
285 per sq mi
Coordinates
34.0305° N, 78.0672° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
Airport
Cape Fear Regional Jetport/Howie Franklin Field (SUT) 26 ft
ZIP codes 3
28422 28461 28479
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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. Silver Lake22 ft
  6. Southport20 ft
  7. Oak Island16 ft
  8. Kure Beach16 ft
  9. Carolina Beach12 ft
  10. Sea Breeze9 ft
  11. Caswell Beach1 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Sand Hill, Brunswick County63 ft
How we measure
  • Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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. All public domain.