Iredell County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,750 ft 535 m1,480 ft 450 m1,340 ft 410 m1,070 ft 325 m800 ft 245 m670 ft 205 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
Iredell County averages about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 670 ft on the southeast side to 1,750 ft on Fox Mountain.
Average elevation
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,750 ft 535 m
on Fox Mountain
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Iredell County spans about 1,080 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Fox Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
38 mi south to north through Mooresville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 206,361 2024 est.
- Land area
- 574.5 sq mi + 22.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 359 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wilkes County1,490 ft
- Alexander County1,200 ft
- Catawba County970 ft
- Yadkin County950 ft
- Iredell County900 ft
- Lincoln County880 ft
- Davie County760 ft
- Rowan County750 ft
- Mecklenburg County700 ft
- Cabarrus County650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina30th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States1,604th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Fox Mountain, Iredell County1,750 ft
- Shumaker Mountain1,700 ft
- Redmond Mountain1,690 ft
- McHargue Mountain1,630 ft
- Grassy Knob, Iredell County1,488 ft
All 8 towns in Iredell County by typical elevation
- Love Valley1,180 ft
- Stony Point partly1,020 ft
- Harmony950 ft
- Troutman880 ft
- Statesville880 ft
- Mooresville840 ft
- Lake Norman of Iredell790 ft
- Davidson partly770 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.
- 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, 550 ft at 35.8038° N, 80.9201° 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.