Lake Norman of Catawba, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m890 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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 Norman of Catawba sits at about 810 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 250 m
most residents: 770–850 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the south side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the north side
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lake Norman of Catawba spans about 190 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 | 810 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 750 ft230 m |
| Airport (14A) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi east of the CDP boundary | 839 ft256 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.0 mi south to north through the middle of Lake Norman of Catawba.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 8,658 2020 Census
- Land area
- 24.2 sq mi + 8.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 358 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.5900° N, 80.9902° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lake Norman Airpark (14A) 839 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 28037 28609 28673 28682
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Claremont950 ft
- Catawba890 ft
- Troutman880 ft
- Denver850 ft
- Mooresville840 ft
- Westport810 ft
- Lake Norman of Catawba810 ft
- Lake Norman of Iredell790 ft
- Cornelius780 ft
- Lowesville780 ft
- Davidson770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina203rd highest of 782
- Towns in Catawba Countylowest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calloway Peak5,930 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Dobson Knob3,705 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 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.
- Lake Norman of Catawba 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.