Fairplains, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,340 ft 405 m1,250 ft 380 m1,200 ft 365 m1,110 ft 340 m1,020 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Fairplains sits at about 1,190 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,190 ft 360 m

most residents: 1,190–1,260 ft

Lowest

980 ft 300 m

on the southwest side

Highest

1,340 ft 405 m

on the north side

Average

1,200 ft 365 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Fairplains spans about 360 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	1,190 ft360 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side	1,340 ft405 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side	980 ft300 m
Airport (UKF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary	1,303 ft397 m
Average of all land	1,200 ft365 m
Nearest peak Pores Knob, 8.5 mi south of the CDP boundary (NGS survey)	2,673 ft815 m

Elevation profile, west to east

2.7 mi west to east through the middle of Fairplains.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States
Population: 2,029 2020 Census
Land area: 4.2 sq mi
Density: 482 per sq mi
Coordinates: 36.1961° N, 81.1546° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Piedmont
Drains to: Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
Airport: Wilkes County (UKF) 1,303 ft
ZIP codes 1: 28659

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Millers Creek1,320 ft
Hays1,280 ft
Cricket1,240 ft
Mulberry1,230 ft
Fairplains1,190 ft
Love Valley1,180 ft
Moravian Falls1,150 ft
North Wilkesboro1,100 ft
Wilkesboro1,070 ft
Pleasant Hill1,070 ft
Ronda1,010 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in North Carolina104th highest of 782
Towns in Wilkes County5th highest of 10

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Bluff Mountain5,080 ft
Phoenix Mountain4,718 ft
Mount Jefferson4,650 ft
Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
Pores Knob2,673 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
Fairplains is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.