Chowan County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

54 ft 16 m40 ft 12 m34 ft 10 m20 ft 6 m7 ft 2 m0 ft 0 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Chowan County averages about 19 ft (6 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Edenton Bay to 54 ft on the north side.

Average elevation

19 ft 6 m

all land inside the county

Highest

54 ft 16 m

on the north side

Lowest

0 ft 0 m

at sea level on Edenton Bay

Chowan County spans about 54 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.

Under 1% of Chowan County's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 8% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	19 ft6 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the north side	54 ft16 m
Lowest point Where the land meets Edenton Bay	0 ft0 m

Elevation profile, south to north

24 mi south to north through Edenton.

Topographic Map

Location: County in North Carolina, United States
Population: 13,891 2024 est.
Land area: 172.7 sq mi + 61.0 sq mi water
Density: 80 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain 97%
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Hertford County42 ft
Bertie County39 ft
Gates County29 ft
Chowan County19 ft
Washington County13 ft
Perquimans County12 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in North Carolina90th highest of 100
Counties in the United States3,093rd highest of 3,151

All 4 towns in Chowan County by typical elevation

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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.