Broadway, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m470 ft 140 m450 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m390 ft 120 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Broadway sits at about 470 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 140 m
most residents: 440–480 ft
Lowest
390 ft 115 m
on the west side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
on the north side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside town limits
Broadway spans about 100 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 | 470 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 390 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Broadway | 470 ft145 m |
| Airport (TTA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.9 mi north of the town limits | 247 ft75 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Lee County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,362 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,053 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.4579° N, 79.0531° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Raleigh Exec Jetport at Sanford-Lee County (TTA) 247 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 27505
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Broadway470 ft
- Fuquay-Varina380 ft
- Cameron380 ft
- Sanford360 ft
- Barbecue320 ft
- Mamers300 ft
- Spout Springs280 ft
- Anderson Creek270 ft
- Gulf260 ft
- Moncure220 ft
- Lillington200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina336th highest of 782
- Towns in Lee Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Holmes Hill470 ft
- Alabama Hills460 ft
- Fox Hill450 ft
- Mathis Hill450 ft
- Spring Hill350 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. All public domain.