Garner, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
420 ft 130 m370 ft 110 m340 ft 105 m280 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m200 ft 60 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
Garner sits at about 320 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
320 ft 95 m
most residents: 270–360 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the south side
Highest
420 ft 130 m
on the southwest side
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside town limits
Garner spans about 220 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 | 320 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 420 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Garner | 360 ft110 m |
| Airport (RDU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi northwest of the town limits | 435 ft133 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 39,345 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,799 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7113° N, 78.6142° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Neuse River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) 435 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 27529 27603
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cary390 ft
- Fuquay-Varina380 ft
- Holly Springs380 ft
- Apex370 ft
- Morrisville340 ft
- Raleigh320 ft
- Garner320 ft
- Wendell300 ft
- Clayton290 ft
- Archer Lodge280 ft
- Knightdale270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina391st highest of 782
- Towns in Wake County10th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Adam Mountain480 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 35.6388° N, 78.5996° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.