Kill Devil Hills, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
88 ft 27 m66 ft 20 m55 ft 17 m33 ft 10 m11 ft 3 m0 ft 0 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kill Devil Hills sits at about 9 ft (3 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
9 ft 3 m
most residents: 6–22 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Kitty Hawk Bay
Highest
88 ft 27 m
on Kill Devil Hills
Average
10 ft 3 m
all land inside town limits
Kill Devil Hills spans about 88 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.
Under 1% of Kill Devil Hills'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 |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 9 ft3 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on Kill Devil Hills | 88 ft27 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Kitty Hawk Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kill Devil Hills | 8 ft2 m |
| Airport (FFA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 12 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 10 ft3 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 7,742 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,381 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0307° N, 75.6760° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- First Flight (FFA) 12 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 27948
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Nags Head15 ft
- Southern Shores11 ft
- Grandy10 ft
- Kitty Hawk9 ft
- Duck9 ft
- Kill Devil Hills9 ft
- Manteo4 ft
- Rodanthe4 ft
- Coinjock3 ft
- Wanchese2 ft
- Manns Harbor2 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina738th highest of 782
- Towns in Dare County5th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kill Devil Hill88 ft
- Engagement Hill56 ft
- West Hill50 ft
- Seven Sisters36 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).
- 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, −2 ft at 35.9871° N, 75.6724° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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 tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.