Butner, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
410 ft 125 m370 ft 115 m350 ft 105 m310 ft 95 m270 ft 85 m260 ft 80 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Butner sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 300–380 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the south side
Highest
410 ft 125 m
on the northwest side
Average
340 ft 105 m
all land inside town limits
Butner spans about 150 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 410 ft125 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 260 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Butner | 370 ft115 m |
| Average of all land | 340 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Granville County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 8,134 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.2 sq mi
- Density
- 574 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1321° N, 78.7567° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Neuse River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 27509 27522 27581
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rougemont550 ft
- Oxford470 ft
- Stem450 ft
- Kittrell430 ft
- Franklinton410 ft
- Youngsville410 ft
- Durham350 ft
- Butner350 ft
- Gorman350 ft
- Creedmoor340 ft
- Wake Forest320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina380th highest of 782
- Towns in Granville County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Glenns Mountain800 ft
- Red Mountain800 ft
- Couch Mountain, Orange County640 ft
- Piney Mountain, Orange County510 ft
- Adam Mountain480 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 36.1135° N, 78.7712° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.