Gorman, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
400 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m340 ft 105 m300 ft 95 m270 ft 80 m250 ft 75 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
Gorman sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 310–370 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the east side
Highest
400 ft 120 m
on the west side
Average
320 ft 100 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Gorman spans about 150 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 400 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gorman | 360 ft110 m |
| Airport (RDU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi south of the CDP boundary | 435 ft133 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Durham County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,066 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 384 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0365° N, 78.8233° 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 1
- 27704
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hillsborough640 ft
- Rougemont550 ft
- Carrboro460 ft
- Stem450 ft
- Chapel Hill400 ft
- Durham350 ft
- Butner350 ft
- Gorman350 ft
- Morrisville340 ft
- Creedmoor340 ft
- Carolina Meadows280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina381st highest of 782
- Towns in Durham Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackwood Mountain740 ft
- Couch Mountain, Orange County640 ft
- Nunn Mountain620 ft
- Piney Mountain, Orange County510 ft
- Adam Mountain480 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.
- Gorman 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. All public domain.