Lake Junaluska, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,540 ft 1,080 m3,280 ft 1,000 m3,150 ft 960 m2,890 ft 880 m2,630 ft 800 m2,500 ft 765 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
Lake Junaluska sits at about 2,690 ft (820 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,690 ft 820 m
most residents: 2,600–2,930 ft
Lowest
2,500 ft 765 m
on the northeast side
Highest
3,540 ft 1,080 m
on Fincher Mountain
Average
2,720 ft 830 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lake Junaluska spans about 1,040 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 | 2,690 ft820 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Fincher Mountain | 3,540 ft1,080 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 2,500 ft765 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake Junaluska | 2,550 ft780 m |
| Average of all land | 2,720 ft830 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Lyn Lowry, 7.1 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 6,220 ft1,895 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Haywood County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 3,245 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 613 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.5279° N, 82.9596° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Pigeon River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 28745 28785 28786
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Maggie Valley2,980 ft
- Waynesville2,750 ft
- West Canton2,710 ft
- Lake Junaluska2,690 ft
- Canton2,690 ft
- Clyde2,570 ft
- Webster2,220 ft
- Bent Creek2,190 ft
- Cullowhee2,180 ft
- Sylva2,140 ft
- Dillsboro2,050 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina28th highest of 782
- Towns in Haywood County4th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Richland Balsam6,400 ft
- Mount Lyn Lowry6,220 ft
- Sandymush Bald5,150 ft
- Ratcliff Mountain4,360 ft
- Utah Mountain4,210 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.
- Lake Junaluska 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.