Lexington, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 195 m620 ft 190 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lexington sits at about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 230 m
most residents: 690–790 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the south side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the north side
Average
730 ft 220 m
all land inside city limits
Lexington spans about 200 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 | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lexington | 810 ft245 m |
| Airport (EXX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 733 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 19,904 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,034 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.8240° N, 80.2534° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Davidson County Exec (EXX) 733 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 27292 27295
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wallburg880 ft
- Midway840 ft
- Thomasville840 ft
- Welcome810 ft
- Tyro770 ft
- Lexington760 ft
- Advance750 ft
- East Spencer710 ft
- Spencer710 ft
- Yadkin College710 ft
- Southmont660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina232nd highest of 782
- Towns in Davidson County6th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
- Three Hat Mountain1,180 ft
- Dunn Mountain1,011 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.