Lenoir County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
170 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 30 m66 ft 20 m26 ft 8 m7 ft 2 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lenoir County averages about 77 ft (23 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 7 ft on the northeast side to 170 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
77 ft 23 m
all land inside the county
Highest
170 ft 50 m
on the west side
Lowest
7 ft 2 m
on the northeast side
Lenoir County spans about 163 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 77 ft23 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 170 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 7 ft2 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through Kinston.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 55,332 2024 est.
- Land area
- 399.1 sq mi + 2.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 139 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wayne County120 ft
- Duplin County95 ft
- Greene County81 ft
- Lenoir County77 ft
- Pitt County48 ft
- Jones County45 ft
- Craven County27 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina76th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,969th highest of 3,151
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.