Fairview, Buncombe County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,800 ft 855 m2,650 ft 805 m2,570 ft 785 m2,410 ft 735 m2,250 ft 685 m2,180 ft 665 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fairview, Buncombe County sits at about 2,370 ft (720 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,370 ft 720 m
most residents: 2,300–2,500 ft
Lowest
2,180 ft 665 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,800 ft 855 m
at the foot of the Swannanoa Mountains
Average
2,350 ft 715 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fairview, Buncombe County spans about 620 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 | 2,370 ft720 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Swannanoa Mountains | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairview, Buncombe County | 2,230 ft680 m |
| Airport (AVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 2,164 ft660 m |
| Average of all land | 2,350 ft715 m |
| Nearest peak Flat Top, 2.1 mi north of the CDP boundary | 4,370 ft1,330 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 2,771 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.2 sq mi
- Density
- 445 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.5140° N, 82.3960° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- French Broad River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Asheville Regional (AVL) 2,164 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28730
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gerton3,270 ft
- Black Mountain2,410 ft
- Fairview, Buncombe County2,370 ft
- Royal Pines2,340 ft
- Swannanoa2,300 ft
- Edneyville2,280 ft
- Hoopers Creek2,260 ft
- Biltmore Forest2,200 ft
- Fruitland2,200 ft
- Fletcher2,140 ft
- Chimney Rock Village1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina35th highest of 782
- Towns in Buncombe County3rd highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Little Pisgah Mountain4,410 ft
- Flat Top4,370 ft
- Bearwallow Mountain4,230 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain3,962 ft
- Youngs Mountain2,712 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.
- Fairview, Buncombe County 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.