Goldston, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 145 m410 ft 125 m380 ft 115 m320 ft 95 m260 ft 80 m230 ft 70 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
Goldston sits at about 410 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
410 ft 125 m
most residents: 260–440 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the south side
Highest
470 ft 145 m
on the north side
Average
330 ft 100 m
all land inside town limits
Goldston spans about 240 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 | 410 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 470 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 230 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Goldston | 420 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 330 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 256 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Density
- 111 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.5932° N, 79.3284° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 27252
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina354th highest of 782
- Towns in Chatham County5th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hickory Mountain, Chatham County710 ft
- Carolina Hill640 ft
- Round Top Mountain, Chatham County600 ft
- Pine Mountain, Moore County560 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.