Elk Park, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,530 ft 1,075 m3,400 ft 1,040 m3,340 ft 1,020 m3,220 ft 980 m3,090 ft 945 m3,030 ft 925 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
Elk Park sits at about 3,250 ft (990 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,250 ft 990 m
most residents: 3,130–3,330 ft
Lowest
3,030 ft 925 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,530 ft 1,075 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
3,220 ft 980 m
all land inside town limits
Elk Park spans about 500 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 | 3,250 ft990 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 3,530 ft1,075 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 3,030 ft925 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elk Park | 3,160 ft960 m |
| Average of all land | 3,220 ft980 m |
| Nearest peak Beech Mountain, 5.3 mi east of the town limits (NGS survey) | 5,506 ft1,678 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,250 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.0 °F96.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.6 inHg (90.0 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.6% 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
- 555 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 803 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1573° N, 81.9782° 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 1
- 28622
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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
- Linville3,690 ft
- Newland3,620 ft
- Crossnore3,470 ft
- Elk Park3,250 ft
- Valle Crucis3,140 ft
- Roan Mountain, TN2,740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina16th highest of 782
- Towns in Avery Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cloudland Mountain6,210 ft
- Calloway Peak5,930 ft
- Beech Mountain5,506 ft
- Unaka Mountain5,170 ft
- The Bald4,650 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.