Chimney Rock Village, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,480 ft 1,060 m2,860 ft 875 m2,550 ft 780 m1,930 ft 590 m1,310 ft 400 m1,000 ft 305 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Chimney Rock Village sits at about 1,140 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,140 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,050–2,680 ft
Lowest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the east side
Highest
3,480 ft 1,060 m
at the foot of the Swannanoa Mountains
Average
2,180 ft 665 m
all land inside village limits
Chimney Rock Village spans about 2,480 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 | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, at the foot of the Swannanoa Mountains | 3,480 ft1,060 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 2,180 ft665 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the middle of Chimney Rock Village.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 138 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.4391° N, 82.2476° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Broad River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 28720
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gerton3,270 ft
- Black Mountain2,410 ft
- Fairview, Buncombe County2,370 ft
- Edneyville2,280 ft
- Hoopers Creek2,260 ft
- Fruitland2,200 ft
- Dana2,190 ft
- Old Fort1,470 ft
- Lake Lure1,200 ft
- Chimney Rock Village1,140 ft
- Columbus1,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina111th highest of 782
- Towns in Rutherford County2nd highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Little Pisgah Mountain4,410 ft
- Bearwallow Mountain4,230 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain3,962 ft
- Hickorynut Mountain3,220 ft
- Youngs Mountain2,712 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village limits (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.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.