Haywood County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

6,620 ft 2,015 m5,310 ft 1,620 m4,660 ft 1,420 m3,350 ft 1,020 m2,050 ft 625 m1,390 ft 425 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

Haywood County averages about 3,590 ft (1,095 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,390 ft on the north side to 6,620 ft on Mount Guyot.

Average elevation

3,590 ft 1,095 m

all land inside the county

Highest

6,620 ft 2,015 m

on Mount Guyot

Lowest

1,390 ft 425 m

on the north side

Haywood County spans about 5,230 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	3,590 ft1,095 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Guyot (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height)	6,620 ft2,015 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side	1,390 ft425 m

Elevation profile, south to north

29 mi south to north through Waynesville.

Topographic Map

Location: County in North Carolina, United States
Population: 63,048 2024 est.
Land area: 553.6 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
Density: 114 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

Haywood County3,590 ft
Jackson County3,380 ft
Swain County3,240 ft
Transylvania County2,860 ft
Buncombe County2,690 ft
Madison County2,680 ft
Sevier County, TN1,980 ft
Cocke County, TN1,750 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in North Carolinahighest of 100
Counties in the United States303rd highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Richland Balsam6,400 ft
Mount Lyn Lowry6,220 ft
Black Balsam Knob6,210 ft
Ratcliff Mountain4,360 ft
Utah Mountain4,210 ft

All 6 towns in Haywood County by typical elevation

Maggie Valley2,980 ft
Waynesville2,750 ft
West Canton2,710 ft
Lake Junaluska2,690 ft
Canton2,690 ft
Clyde2,570 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.