Harnett County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

490 ft 150 m380 ft 115 m320 ft 100 m220 ft 65 m110 ft 35 m54 ft 17 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Harnett County averages about 250 ft (75 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 54 ft on the southeast side to 490 ft on Cameron Hill.

Average elevation

250 ft 75 m

all land inside the county

Highest

490 ft 150 m

on Cameron Hill

Lowest

54 ft 17 m

on the southeast side

Harnett County spans about 436 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	250 ft75 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Cameron Hill	490 ft150 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	54 ft17 m

Elevation profile, west to east

35 mi west to east through Anderson Creek.

Topographic Map

Location: County in North Carolina, United States
Population: 146,096 2024 est.
Land area: 595.1 sq mi + 6.3 sq mi water
Density: 245 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain 96%
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Chatham County440 ft
Moore County420 ft
Lee County330 ft
Wake County330 ft
Harnett County250 ft
Johnston County190 ft
Cumberland County150 ft
Sampson County130 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in North Carolina62nd highest of 100
Counties in the United States2,701st highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Cameron Hill490 ft
Holmes Hill470 ft
Round Top, Harnett County460 ft
Alabama Hills460 ft
Fox Hill450 ft

All 11 towns in Harnett County by typical elevation

Barbecue320 ft
Mamers300 ft
Angier290 ft
Coats290 ft
Spout Springs280 ft
Anderson Creek270 ft
Dunn200 ft
Lillington200 ft
Buies Creek190 ft
Erwin190 ft
Bunnlevel140 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.
Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 490 ft at 35.2993° N, 79.1610° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −2 ft at 35.3588° N, 78.8357° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.