Flat Rock, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,970 ft 905 m2,750 ft 835 m2,640 ft 805 m2,420 ft 735 m2,200 ft 670 m2,090 ft 635 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Flat Rock sits at about 2,260 ft (690 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,260 ft 690 m
most residents: 2,150–2,530 ft
Lowest
2,090 ft 635 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,970 ft 905 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,310 ft 705 m
all land inside village limits
Flat Rock spans about 880 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 | 2,260 ft690 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 2,970 ft905 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Flat Rock | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Airport (AVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northwest of the village limits | 2,164 ft660 m |
| Average of all land | 2,310 ft705 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 3,602 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 445 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2712° N, 82.4415° 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 2
- 28731 28739
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Laurel Park2,340 ft
- Flat Rock2,260 ft
- Dana2,190 ft
- Valley Hill2,180 ft
- Balfour2,180 ft
- Horse Shoe2,170 ft
- Mountain Home2,160 ft
- East Flat Rock2,150 ft
- Saluda2,140 ft
- Hendersonville2,140 ft
- Barker Heights2,110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina44th highest of 782
- Towns in Henderson County5th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Little Pisgah Mountain4,410 ft
- Bearwallow Mountain4,230 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain3,962 ft
- Rich Mountain3,779 ft
- White Oak Mountain3,080 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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.