Gamewell, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,520 ft 465 m1,390 ft 425 m1,330 ft 405 m1,200 ft 365 m1,080 ft 330 m1,020 ft 310 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gamewell sits at about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
most residents: 1,060–1,200 ft
Lowest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,520 ft 465 m
on the east side
Average
1,110 ft 340 m
all land inside town limits
Gamewell spans about 500 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gamewell | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Airport (MRN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi south of the town limits | 1,270 ft387 m |
| Average of all land | 1,110 ft340 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 3,699 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.1 sq mi
- Density
- 456 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.8693° N, 81.5962° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Foothills Regional (MRN) 1,270 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28645
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cajah's Mountain1,290 ft
- Cedar Rock1,230 ft
- Hudson1,220 ft
- Connelly Springs1,210 ft
- Drexel1,210 ft
- Valdese1,200 ft
- Lenoir1,200 ft
- Rutherford College1,190 ft
- Sawmills1,180 ft
- Morganton1,140 ft
- Gamewell1,120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina116th highest of 782
- Towns in Caldwell County7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calloway Peak5,930 ft
- Beech Mountain5,506 ft
- Dobson Knob3,705 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.