Gaston County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,650 ft 500 m1,380 ft 420 m1,240 ft 380 m970 ft 295 m700 ft 215 m560 ft 170 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gaston County averages about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 560 ft on the southeast side to 1,650 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
770 ft 235 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,650 ft 500 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the southeast side
Gaston County spans about 1,090 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,650 ft500 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
17 mi west to east through Gastonia.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 242,010 2024 est.
- Land area
- 355.8 sq mi + 7.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 680 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cleveland County900 ft
- Lincoln County880 ft
- Gaston County770 ft
- Mecklenburg County700 ft
- York County, SC620 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina34th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States1,869th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Crowders Mountain1,570 ft
- Spencer Mountain1,267 ft
- Jackson Knob, Gaston County1,070 ft
- Gamble Hill930 ft
- Berry Mountain, Gaston County920 ft
All 15 towns in Gaston County by typical elevation
- Kings Mountain partly930 ft
- Cherryville930 ft
- Bessemer City880 ft
- Alexis850 ft
- Stanley810 ft
- Ranlo770 ft
- Springdale760 ft
- High Shoals760 ft
- Gastonia760 ft
- Dallas760 ft
- Lowell730 ft
- Belmont670 ft
- Mount Holly650 ft
- Cramerton640 ft
- McAdenville620 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.