Burgaw, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
57 ft 18 m47 ft 14 m42 ft 13 m31 ft 10 m21 ft 6 m16 ft 5 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
Burgaw sits at about 49 ft (15 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
49 ft 15 m
most residents: 32–50 ft
Lowest
16 ft 5 m
on the east side
Highest
57 ft 18 m
on the west side
Average
42 ft 13 m
all land inside town limits
Burgaw 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 49 ft15 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 57 ft18 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 16 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burgaw | 49 ft15 m |
| Average of all land | 42 ft13 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Pender County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 3,825 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Density
- 781 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.5521° N, 77.9261° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Northeast Cape Fear River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 28425
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Teachey72 ft
- Atkinson60 ft
- Watha53 ft
- Rocky Point53 ft
- Wallace52 ft
- St. Helena52 ft
- Burgaw49 ft
- Blue Clay Farms34 ft
- Skippers Corner26 ft
- Castle Hayne16 ft
- Long Creek14 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina621st highest of 782
- Towns in Pender County5th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Ball Hill40 ft
- Pine Island34 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.