Glen Raven, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 215 m670 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m600 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glen Raven sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 600–660 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the east side
Highest
710 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Glen Raven spans about 170 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 710 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (BUY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi south of the CDP boundary | 616 ft188 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the middle of Glen Raven.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 3,239 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 982 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1241° N, 79.4673° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Haw River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Burlington/Alamance Regional (BUY) 616 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 27217
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elon690 ft
- Gibsonville680 ft
- Whitsett670 ft
- Altamahaw660 ft
- Ossipee640 ft
- Glen Raven640 ft
- Green Level630 ft
- Burlington630 ft
- Alamance590 ft
- Graham590 ft
- Haw River580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina281st highest of 782
- Towns in Alamance County5th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
- Cane Creek Mountains970 ft
- Stony Creek Mountain913 ft
- Bass Mountain870 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Glen Raven is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.