Cove Creek, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,880 ft 1,180 m3,570 ft 1,090 m3,420 ft 1,040 m3,110 ft 945 m2,800 ft 855 m2,640 ft 805 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
Cove Creek sits at about 2,900 ft (885 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,900 ft 885 m
most residents: 2,800–3,200 ft
Lowest
2,640 ft 805 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,880 ft 1,180 m
on Prophet Knob
Average
3,010 ft 920 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cove Creek spans about 1,240 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 | 2,900 ft885 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Prophet Knob | 3,880 ft1,180 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,640 ft805 m |
| Average of all land | 3,010 ft920 m |
| Nearest peak Elk Knob, 4.5 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 5,550 ft1,690 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.3 mi west to east through the middle of Cove Creek.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Watauga County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,068 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.5 sq mi
- Density
- 125 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.2788° N, 81.7814° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 28679 28692 28698
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sugar Mountain4,490 ft
- Beech Mountain4,480 ft
- Grandfather Village3,970 ft
- Seven Devils3,960 ft
- Banner Elk3,730 ft
- Blowing Rock3,630 ft
- Foscoe3,260 ft
- Boone3,250 ft
- Valle Crucis3,140 ft
- Cove Creek2,900 ft
- Mountain City, TN2,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina22nd highest of 782
- Towns in Watauga Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calloway Peak5,930 ft
- Elk Knob5,550 ft
- Beech Mountain5,506 ft
- Bluff Mountain5,080 ft
- The Bald4,650 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.
- Cove Creek 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.