Burlington, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 220 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m490 ft 150 m400 ft 120 m350 ft 110 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Burlington sits at about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 190 m
most residents: 580–670 ft
Lowest
350 ft 110 m
on the southwest side
Highest
710 ft 220 m
on the west side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside city limits
Burlington spans about 360 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 710 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 350 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burlington | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (BUY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 616 ft188 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Alamance and Guilford counties, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 61,365 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.3 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,961 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0957° N, 79.4378° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Haw River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Burlington/Alamance Regional (BUY) 616 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 27215 27217 27253 27377
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elon690 ft
- Gibsonville680 ft
- Altamahaw660 ft
- Ossipee640 ft
- Glen Raven640 ft
- Green Level630 ft
- Burlington630 ft
- Alamance590 ft
- Graham590 ft
- Haw River580 ft
- Swepsonville570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina288th highest of 782
- Towns in Alamance County7th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
- Cane Creek Mountains970 ft
- Stony Creek Mountain913 ft
- Bass Mountain870 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.