King, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 350 m1,080 ft 330 m1,050 ft 320 m980 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m880 ft 270 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
King sits at about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,040 ft 315 m
most residents: 1,000–1,100 ft
Lowest
880 ft 270 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the east side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside city limits
King spans about 260 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 | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 880 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for King | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Nearest peak Moores Knob, 7.1 mi northeast of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,580 ft786 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Stokes and Forsyth counties, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 7,764 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,195 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.2807° N, 80.3592° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 27021
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pilot Mountain1,110 ft
- Smithtown1,070 ft
- King1,040 ft
- East Bend1,030 ft
- Pinnacle1,010 ft
- Tobaccoville970 ft
- Rural Hall970 ft
- Danbury900 ft
- Bethania870 ft
- Germanton730 ft
- Walnut Cove690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina137th highest of 782
- Towns in Stokes Countyhighest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.