Montgomery County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m760 ft 230 m660 ft 200 m470 ft 145 m280 ft 85 m190 ft 55 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
Montgomery County averages about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 190 ft on the south side to 950 ft on Dark Mountain.
Average elevation
520 ft 160 m
all land inside the county
Highest
950 ft 290 m
on Dark Mountain
Lowest
190 ft 55 m
on the south side
Montgomery County spans about 760 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Dark Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 190 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Troy.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 26,364 2024 est.
- Land area
- 491.5 sq mi + 10.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 54 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
- Davidson County750 ft
- Randolph County640 ft
- Stanly County520 ft
- Montgomery County520 ft
- Moore County420 ft
- Richmond County340 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina48th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,300th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Dark Mountain, Montgomery County950 ft
- Little Long Mountain920 ft
- Wysner Mountain920 ft
- Shingle Trap Mountain910 ft
- Flint Hill, Montgomery County910 ft
All 5 towns in Montgomery County by typical elevation
- Candor730 ft
- Star620 ft
- Troy600 ft
- Biscoe570 ft
- Mount Gilead390 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.