Caroleen, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m890 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Caroleen sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 830–910 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the southwest side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Caroleen spans about 200 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Caroleen | 840 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 560 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 506 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2810° N, 81.7962° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Broad River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 28019 28040
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spindale1,040 ft
- Ellenboro1,010 ft
- Forest City980 ft
- Bostic920 ft
- Lattimore920 ft
- Chesnee, SC900 ft
- Mooresboro880 ft
- Caroleen870 ft
- Boiling Springs840 ft
- Cliffside810 ft
- Henrietta780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina183rd highest of 782
- Towns in Rutherford County9th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf Mountain3,962 ft
- Hickorynut Mountain3,220 ft
- White Oak Mountain3,080 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Youngs Mountain2,712 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Caroleen is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.