Elkin, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 365 m1,110 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m990 ft 300 m910 ft 280 m870 ft 265 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Elkin sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 970–1,110 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the east side
Highest
1,190 ft 365 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside town limits
Elkin spans about 320 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elkin | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (ZEF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,067 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Surry and Wilkes counties, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 4,094 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 600 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.2443° N, 80.8484° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Elkin Municipal (ZEF) 1,067 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28621
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hays1,280 ft
- Dobson1,200 ft
- Fairplains1,190 ft
- North Wilkesboro1,100 ft
- Pleasant Hill1,070 ft
- Smithtown1,070 ft
- Elkin1,030 ft
- Boonville1,030 ft
- Ronda1,010 ft
- Jonesville960 ft
- Yadkinville940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina138th highest of 782
- Towns in Surry Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Rock4,660 ft
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 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).
- 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.