Cornelius, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m700 ft 210 m680 ft 205 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cornelius sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 750–800 ft
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
near the middle
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside town limits
Cornelius spans about 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 680 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cornelius | 780 ft240 m |
| Airport (JQF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi southeast of the town limits | 704 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 34,366 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.7 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,707 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.4868° N, 80.8601° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Concord-Padgett Regional (JQF) 704 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28031
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Denver850 ft
- Mooresville840 ft
- Westport810 ft
- Lake Norman of Catawba810 ft
- Enochville810 ft
- Lake Norman of Iredell790 ft
- Cornelius780 ft
- Lowesville780 ft
- Davidson770 ft
- Huntersville740 ft
- Kannapolis730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina219th highest of 782
- Towns in Mecklenburg Countyhighest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Anderson Mountain, Catawba County1,540 ft
- Reese Mountain1,060 ft
- Capps Hill850 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.