Hayesville, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,090 ft 635 m2,010 ft 615 m1,970 ft 600 m1,900 ft 580 m1,820 ft 555 m1,780 ft 540 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Hayesville sits at about 1,870 ft (570 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,870 ft 570 m
most residents: 1,820–1,900 ft
Lowest
1,780 ft 540 m
on the north side
Highest
2,090 ft 635 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,860 ft 565 m
all land inside town limits
Hayesville spans about 310 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 | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 1,780 ft540 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hayesville | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Average of all land | 1,860 ft565 m |
| Nearest peak Ravencliff Knob, 7.4 mi southwest of the town limits (NGS survey) | 3,652 ft1,113 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Clay County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 481 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 755 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0462° N, 83.8180° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Hiwassee River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 28904
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tate City, GA2,560 ft
- Hiawassee, GA2,020 ft
- Lake Santeetlah2,020 ft
- Robbinsville2,020 ft
- Blairsville, GA1,970 ft
- Young Harris, GA1,900 ft
- Hayesville1,870 ft
- Andrews1,780 ft
- Marble1,710 ft
- Murphy1,630 ft
- Helen, GA1,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina78th highest of 782
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Signal Bald5,270 ft
- Chunky Gal Mountain4,990 ft
- Brasstown Bald4,780 ft
- Teyahalee Bald4,710 ft
- Ravencliff Knob3,652 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.