Cherokee, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,050 ft 1,235 m3,510 ft 1,070 m3,240 ft 990 m2,700 ft 825 m2,160 ft 660 m1,890 ft 575 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cherokee sits at about 2,470 ft (755 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,470 ft 755 m
most residents: 2,030–2,740 ft
Lowest
1,890 ft 575 m
on the west side
Highest
4,050 ft 1,235 m
on Mount Noble
Average
2,540 ft 775 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cherokee spans about 2,160 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 | 2,470 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Mount Noble | 4,050 ft1,235 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cherokee | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Average of all land | 2,540 ft775 m |
| Nearest peak Cataloochee Balsam, 7.1 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 5,940 ft1,810 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Jackson and Swain counties, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 2,195 2020 Census
- Land area
- 12.1 sq mi
- Density
- 182 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.4743° N, 83.3149° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Little Tennessee River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 28719 28789
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Maggie Valley2,980 ft
- Waynesville2,750 ft
- Cherokee2,470 ft
- Forest Hills2,260 ft
- Webster2,220 ft
- Cullowhee2,180 ft
- Sylva2,140 ft
- Dillsboro2,050 ft
- Whittier1,950 ft
- Bryson City1,870 ft
- Gatlinburg, TN1,690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina33rd highest of 782
- Towns in Jackson County3rd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kuwohi6,640 ft
- Mount Le Conte6,590 ft
- Mount Lyn Lowry6,220 ft
- Cataloochee Balsam5,940 ft
- Cowee Bald4,960 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.
- Cherokee 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. All public domain.