Faison, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
180 ft 55 m160 ft 50 m160 ft 45 m140 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m110 ft 35 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
Faison sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 150–160 ft
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the east side
Highest
180 ft 55 m
on the west side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside town limits
Faison spans about 70 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 180 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 110 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Faison | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (W40) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi northeast of the town limits | 167 ft51 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Duplin County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 811 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 936 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1163° N, 78.1361° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Northeast Cape Fear River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Mount Olive Municipal (W40) 167 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28341
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Keener170 ft
- Brogden170 ft
- Dudley170 ft
- Mount Olive160 ft
- Faison160 ft
- Bowdens160 ft
- Calypso160 ft
- Clinton150 ft
- Warsaw150 ft
- Turkey150 ft
- Kenansville110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina473rd highest of 782
- Towns in Duplin Countyhighest of 13
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. All public domain.