Huntersville, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m700 ft 215 m640 ft 195 m610 ft 185 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Huntersville sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 700–780 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the east side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the south side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside town limits
Huntersville spans about 240 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Huntersville | 810 ft245 m |
| Airport (CLT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi southwest of the town limits | 748 ft228 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 67,087 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,594 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.4107° N, 80.8429° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Charlotte/Douglas International (CLT) 748 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28078
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mooresville840 ft
- Westport810 ft
- Enochville810 ft
- Lake Norman of Iredell790 ft
- Cornelius780 ft
- Lowesville780 ft
- Davidson770 ft
- Huntersville740 ft
- Charlotte700 ft
- Mount Holly650 ft
- Harrisburg610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina239th highest of 782
- Towns in Mecklenburg County3rd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Spencer Mountain1,267 ft
- Reese Mountain1,060 ft
- Capps Hill850 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.