Cherokee County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,030 ft 1,535 m4,070 ft 1,240 m3,580 ft 1,090 m2,610 ft 795 m1,640 ft 500 m1,160 ft 355 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
Cherokee County averages about 2,130 ft (650 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,160 ft on the west side to 5,030 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
2,130 ft 650 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,030 ft 1,535 m
on the east side
Lowest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the west side
Cherokee County spans about 3,870 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 | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 5,030 ft1,535 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
32 mi west to east through Andrews.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 30,373 2024 est.
- Land area
- 455.5 sq mi + 11.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 67 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Macon County3,100 ft
- Graham County2,840 ft
- Clay County2,730 ft
- Union County, GA2,370 ft
- Cherokee County2,130 ft
- Fannin County, GA2,120 ft
- Monroe County, TN1,460 ft
- Polk County, TN1,380 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina17th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States579th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Grassy Top, Cherokee County4,950 ft
- Freeman Knob4,640 ft
- McDaniel Bald4,640 ft
- Hangover Top4,560 ft
- Pack Mountain3,450 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.
- 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.