Hertford County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
99 ft 30 m74 ft 23 m62 ft 19 m37 ft 11 m12 ft 4 m0 ft 0 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
Hertford County averages about 42 ft (13 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 0 ft near the middle to 99 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
42 ft 13 m
all land inside the county
Highest
99 ft 30 m
on the west side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
near the middle
Hertford County spans about 99 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.
Under 1% of Hertford County's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 7% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 42 ft13 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 99 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, near the middle | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
28 mi west to east through Ahoskie.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 19,169 2024 est.
- Land area
- 353.2 sq mi + 7.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 54 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain 98%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Northampton County95 ft
- Southampton County, VA66 ft
- Hertford County42 ft
- Bertie County39 ft
- Gates County29 ft
- Chowan County19 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina82nd highest of 100
- Counties in the United States3,047th highest of 3,151
All 6 towns in Hertford County by typical elevation
- Murfreesboro74 ft
- Como67 ft
- Harrellsville60 ft
- Ahoskie48 ft
- Winton44 ft
- Cofield41 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.
- 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, −1 ft at 36.2668° N, 76.7057° 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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.