Halifax County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
400 ft 120 m300 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m160 ft 50 m60 ft 18 m11 ft 3 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
Halifax County averages about 140 ft (45 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 11 ft on the southeast side to 400 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
140 ft 45 m
all land inside the county
Highest
400 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
11 ft 3 m
on the southeast side
Halifax County spans about 389 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 | 140 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 400 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 11 ft3 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
15 mi west to east through Roanoke Rapids.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 46,992 2024 est.
- Land area
- 723.7 sq mi + 6.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 65 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Coastal Plain 54%, Piedmont 46%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Warren County310 ft
- Nash County190 ft
- Halifax County140 ft
- Northampton County95 ft
- Edgecombe County79 ft
- Martin County48 ft
- Bertie County39 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina67th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,864th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Medoc Mountain320 ft
All 10 towns in Halifax County by typical elevation
- Littleton370 ft
- Hollister240 ft
- South Rosemary210 ft
- Roanoke Rapids140 ft
- Halifax110 ft
- Enfield110 ft
- Scotland Neck98 ft
- Hobgood89 ft
- South Weldon89 ft
- Weldon86 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.