Macon County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,500 ft 1,675 m4,580 ft 1,395 m4,120 ft 1,255 m3,200 ft 975 m2,280 ft 695 m1,820 ft 555 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
Macon County averages about 3,100 ft (945 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,820 ft on the northwest side to 5,500 ft on Deadening Knob.
Average elevation
3,100 ft 945 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,500 ft 1,676 m
on Deadening Knob
Lowest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the northwest side
Macon County spans about 3,680 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 | 3,100 ft945 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Deadening Knob (NGS survey height) | 5,500 ft1,676 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,820 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
28 mi west to east through Franklin.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 38,717 2024 est.
- Land area
- 515.5 sq mi + 4.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 75 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Jackson County3,380 ft
- Swain County3,240 ft
- Macon County3,100 ft
- Graham County2,840 ft
- Clay County2,730 ft
- Rabun County, GA2,310 ft
- Cherokee County2,130 ft
- Oconee County, SC1,130 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina9th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States364th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Deadening Knob5,500 ft
- Wine Spring Bald5,460 ft
- Wayah Bald5,342 ft
- Rocky Bald, Macon County5,330 ft
- Yellow Mountain5,137 ft
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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.