Cumberland County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

480 ft 150 m370 ft 115 m310 ft 95 m200 ft 60 m87 ft 26 m30 ft 9 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

Cumberland County averages about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 30 ft on the northwest side to 480 ft on the west side.

Average elevation

150 ft 45 m

all land inside the county

Highest

480 ft 150 m

on the west side

Lowest

30 ft 9 m

on the northwest side

Cumberland County spans about 450 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.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	150 ft45 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the west side	480 ft150 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side	30 ft9 m

Elevation profile, west to east

25 mi west to east through Fayetteville.

Topographic Map

Location: County in North Carolina, United States
Population: 338,430 2024 est.
Land area: 652.6 sq mi + 5.9 sq mi water
Density: 519 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Moore County420 ft
Hoke County280 ft
Harnett County250 ft
Cumberland County150 ft
Robeson County140 ft
Sampson County130 ft
Bladen County83 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in North Carolina65th highest of 100
Counties in the United States2,853rd highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Coolyconch Mountain450 ft
Vaughn Hill425 ft
Caisson Hill420 ft
West Newton Hill380 ft

All 10 towns in Cumberland County by typical elevation

Spring Lake220 ft
Fayetteville210 ft
Hope Mills160 ft
Godwin160 ft
Falcon140 ft
Wade130 ft
Eastover130 ft
Vander130 ft
Stedman130 ft
Linden110 ft

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.
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 30 ft at 35.1465° N, 78.8499° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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. All public domain.