Forest Hills, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,790 ft 850 m2,620 ft 795 m2,530 ft 770 m2,360 ft 720 m2,190 ft 665 m2,100 ft 640 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Forest Hills 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: 2,220–2,480 ft
Lowest
2,100 ft 640 m
on the east side
Highest
2,790 ft 850 m
at the foot of the Cowee Mountains
Average
2,390 ft 730 m
all land inside village limits
Forest Hills spans about 690 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, at the foot of the Cowee Mountains | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 2,100 ft640 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Forest Hills | 2,290 ft700 m |
| Airport (24A) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi northwest of the village limits | 2,857 ft871 m |
| Average of all land | 2,390 ft730 m |
| Nearest peak Cowee Bald, 7.6 mi west of the village limits | 4,960 ft1,510 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 318 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 606 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2973° N, 83.1935° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Tuckasegee River → Little Tennessee River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Jackson County (24A) 2,857 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28723
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina42nd highest of 782
- Towns in Jackson County4th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Richland Balsam6,400 ft
- Mount Lyn Lowry6,220 ft
- Cataloochee Balsam5,940 ft
- Yellow Mountain5,137 ft
- Cowee Bald4,960 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.