Graham County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,560 ft 1,695 m4,440 ft 1,355 m3,880 ft 1,180 m2,760 ft 840 m1,640 ft 500 m1,090 ft 330 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
Graham County averages about 2,840 ft (865 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,090 ft on the northwest side to 5,560 ft on Huckleberry Knob.
Average elevation
2,840 ft 865 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,560 ft 1,695 m
on Huckleberry Knob
Lowest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the northwest side
Graham County spans about 4,470 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 | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Huckleberry Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 5,560 ft1,695 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,090 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
20 mi west to east through Robbinsville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 8,179 2024 est.
- Land area
- 292.0 sq mi + 9.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Swain County3,240 ft
- Macon County3,100 ft
- Graham County2,840 ft
- Cherokee County2,130 ft
- Monroe County, TN1,460 ft
- Blount County, TN1,420 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina12th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States410th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Huckleberry Knob5,560 ft
- Haw Knob, Graham County5,470 ft
- Hooper Bald5,430 ft
- Teyahalee Bald4,710 ft
- Wauchecha Bald4,390 ft
All 3 towns in Graham County by typical elevation
- Lake Santeetlah2,020 ft
- Robbinsville2,020 ft
- Fontana Dam1,870 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.