Lincolnton, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m960 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m850 ft 260 m780 ft 235 m740 ft 225 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lincolnton sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 800–970 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the south side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the northeast side
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Lincolnton spans about 290 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lincolnton | 830 ft255 m |
| Airport (IPJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi east of the city limits | 878 ft268 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 12,353 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,379 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.4737° N, 81.2545° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- South Fork Catawba River → Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lincoln County Regional (IPJ) 878 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28092
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cherryville930 ft
- Maiden910 ft
- Waco900 ft
- Bessemer City880 ft
- Iron Station870 ft
- Lincolnton870 ft
- Alexis850 ft
- Crouse840 ft
- Stanley810 ft
- High Shoals760 ft
- Dallas760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina180th highest of 782
- Towns in Lincoln County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dobson Knob3,705 ft
- Hickorynut Mountain3,220 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Youngs Mountain2,712 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 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.