Cabarrus County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m620 ft 190 m500 ft 155 m450 ft 135 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cabarrus County averages about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 450 ft on the south side to 900 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
650 ft 200 m
all land inside the county
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
on the south side
Cabarrus County spans about 450 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 450 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Concord.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 244,925 2024 est.
- Land area
- 361.3 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 678 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Iredell County900 ft
- Rowan County750 ft
- Mecklenburg County700 ft
- Cabarrus County650 ft
- Union County570 ft
- Stanly County520 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina40th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,135th highest of 3,151
All 6 towns in Cabarrus County by typical elevation
- Kannapolis730 ft
- Locust partly660 ft
- Concord650 ft
- Mount Pleasant620 ft
- Harrisburg610 ft
- Midland540 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 350 ft at 35.4104° N, 80.7040° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.