Mecklenburg County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

880 ft 265 m720 ft 220 m650 ft 200 m500 ft 150 m340 ft 105 m270 ft 80 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Mecklenburg County averages about 700 ft (210 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 270 ft on the southwest side to 880 ft near the middle.

Average elevation

700 ft 210 m

all land inside the county

Highest

880 ft 265 m

near the middle

Lowest

270 ft 80 m

on the southwest side

Mecklenburg County spans about 610 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	700 ft210 m
Highest point Inside the county, near the middle	880 ft265 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	270 ft80 m

Elevation profile, south to north

35 mi south to north through Charlotte.

Topographic Map

Location: County in North Carolina, United States
Population: 1,206,285 2024 est.
Land area: 523.6 sq mi + 22.4 sq mi water
Density: 2,304 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Piedmont
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Iredell County900 ft
Lincoln County880 ft
Gaston County770 ft
Mecklenburg County700 ft
Cabarrus County650 ft
York County, SC620 ft
Union County570 ft
Lancaster County, SC520 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in North Carolina39th highest of 100
Counties in the United States2,034th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Capps Hill850 ft

All 10 towns in Mecklenburg County by typical elevation

Cornelius780 ft
Davidson770 ft
Huntersville740 ft
Mint Hill720 ft
Matthews710 ft
Charlotte700 ft
Stallings partly680 ft
Weddington partly670 ft
Harrisburg partly610 ft
Pineville580 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 230 ft at 35.1215° N, 80.8982° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.