Crossnore, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,610 ft 1,100 m3,540 ft 1,080 m3,500 ft 1,070 m3,430 ft 1,045 m3,370 ft 1,025 m3,330 ft 1,015 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Crossnore sits at about 3,470 ft (1,060 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,470 ft 1,060 m
most residents: 3,370–3,490 ft
Lowest
3,330 ft 1,015 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,610 ft 1,100 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
3,440 ft 1,050 m
all land inside town limits
Crossnore spans about 280 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 | 3,470 ft1,060 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,610 ft1,100 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 3,330 ft1,015 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Crossnore | 3,380 ft1,030 m |
| Airport (7A8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi southwest of the town limits | 2,745 ft837 m |
| Average of all land | 3,440 ft1,050 m |
| Nearest peak Calloway Peak, 8.7 mi northeast of the town limits | 5,930 ft1,805 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,470 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.6 °F96.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.4 inHg (89.2 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Avery County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 151 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 337 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0218° N, 81.9296° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Avery County/Morrison Field (7A8) 2,745 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28616
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
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
- Linville3,690 ft
- Newland3,620 ft
- Crossnore3,470 ft
- Elk Park3,250 ft
- Spruce Pine2,660 ft
- Bakersville2,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina12th highest of 782
- Towns in Avery County6th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cloudland Mountain6,210 ft
- Calloway Peak5,930 ft
- Beech Mountain5,506 ft
- Pig Pen Bluff4,380 ft
- Dobson Knob3,705 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.