Iron Station, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m760 ft 230 m730 ft 225 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Iron Station sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 840–900 ft
Lowest
730 ft 225 m
on the northeast side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the northwest side
Average
860 ft 265 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Iron Station spans about 230 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 730 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Iron Station | 880 ft270 m |
| Airport (IPJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi north of the CDP boundary | 878 ft268 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 825 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 348 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.4415° N, 81.1562° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lincoln County Regional (IPJ) 878 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28080
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Maiden910 ft
- Iron Station870 ft
- Lincolnton870 ft
- Denver850 ft
- Alexis850 ft
- Crouse840 ft
- Stanley810 ft
- Lowesville780 ft
- Springdale760 ft
- High Shoals760 ft
- Dallas760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina179th highest of 782
- Towns in Lincoln Countyhighest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dobson Knob3,705 ft
- Hickorynut Mountain3,220 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Youngs Mountain2,712 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Iron Station is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.