Davidson County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,010 ft 310 m930 ft 280 m760 ft 230 m590 ft 180 m510 ft 155 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Davidson County averages about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 510 ft on the southeast side to 1,180 ft on High Rock Mountain.
Average elevation
750 ft 230 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on High Rock Mountain
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Davidson County spans about 670 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on High Rock Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
35 mi south to north through Thomasville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 177,809 2024 est.
- Land area
- 553.0 sq mi + 14.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 322 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Forsyth County860 ft
- Guilford County780 ft
- Davie County760 ft
- Davidson County750 ft
- Rowan County750 ft
- Randolph County640 ft
- Stanly County520 ft
- Montgomery County520 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina36th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States1,924th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Three Hat Mountain1,180 ft
- High Rock Mountain1,180 ft
- Grist Mountain1,122 ft
- Wildcat Mountain, Davidson County1,070 ft
- Prickly Pear Mountain970 ft
All 10 towns in Davidson County by typical elevation
- Wallburg880 ft
- High Point partly860 ft
- Midway840 ft
- Thomasville840 ft
- Welcome810 ft
- Tyro770 ft
- Lexington760 ft
- Denton710 ft
- Yadkin College710 ft
- Southmont660 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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. All public domain.