Moncure, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
350 ft 110 m300 ft 95 m280 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m180 ft 55 m160 ft 50 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Moncure sits at about 220 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
220 ft 70 m
most residents: 210–270 ft
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the east side
Highest
350 ft 110 m
on the north side
Average
230 ft 70 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Moncure spans about 190 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 | 220 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 350 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 160 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Moncure | 220 ft65 m |
| Airport (TTA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 247 ft75 m |
| Average of all land | 230 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 780 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6227° N, 79.0783° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Raleigh Exec Jetport at Sanford-Lee County (TTA) 247 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 27559
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Briar Chapel480 ft
- Broadway470 ft
- Fearrington Village430 ft
- Goldston410 ft
- Pittsboro400 ft
- Governors Club400 ft
- Holly Springs380 ft
- Apex370 ft
- Sanford360 ft
- Gulf260 ft
- Moncure220 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina431st highest of 782
- Towns in Chatham Countylowest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bennett Mountain610 ft
- Red Hill, Chatham County600 ft
- Burnett Mountain600 ft
- Round Top Mountain, Chatham County600 ft
- Lambeth Mountain590 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Moncure is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.