Lansing, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,960 ft 900 m2,880 ft 880 m2,840 ft 865 m2,760 ft 840 m2,680 ft 820 m2,640 ft 805 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Lansing sits at about 2,810 ft (855 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,810 ft 855 m
most residents: 2,650–2,810 ft
Lowest
2,640 ft 805 m
on the south side
Highest
2,960 ft 900 m
at the foot of the Stone Mountains
Average
2,750 ft 840 m
all land inside town limits
Lansing spans about 320 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 | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, at the foot of the Stone Mountains | 2,960 ft900 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 2,640 ft805 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lansing | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Airport (GEV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi southeast of the town limits | 3,178 ft969 m |
| Average of all land | 2,750 ft840 m |
| Nearest peak Phoenix Mountain, 2.4 mi southeast of the town limits (NGS survey) | 4,718 ft1,438 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Ashe County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 129 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 349 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4993° N, 81.5109° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- New River → Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Ashe County (GEV) 3,178 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28643
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Boone3,250 ft
- Troutdale, VA3,250 ft
- West Jefferson3,090 ft
- Jefferson2,990 ft
- Sparta2,930 ft
- Cove Creek2,900 ft
- Lansing2,810 ft
- Sugar Grove, VA2,700 ft
- Mountain City, TN2,470 ft
- Adwolf, VA2,300 ft
- Damascus, VA1,970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina24th highest of 782
- Towns in Ashe Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bluff Mountain5,080 ft
- Three Top Mountain5,010 ft
- Pond Mountain4,940 ft
- Phoenix Mountain4,718 ft
- Mount Jefferson4,650 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).
- 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 NGS survey heights. All public domain.