Mount Airy, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,230 ft 375 m1,180 ft 360 m1,100 ft 335 m1,010 ft 310 m970 ft 295 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
Mount Airy sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,030–1,210 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the south side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside city limits
Mount Airy spans about 340 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Airy | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Airport (MWK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.2 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,269 ft387 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Surry County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 10,583 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 899 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4993° N, 80.6073° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Ararat River → Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Mount Airy/Surry County (MWK) 1,269 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 27030
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fancy Gap, VA2,930 ft
- Lowgap1,380 ft
- Cana, VA1,320 ft
- Dobson1,200 ft
- White Plains1,140 ft
- Pilot Mountain1,110 ft
- Flat Rock, Surry County1,110 ft
- Mount Airy1,080 ft
- Toast1,080 ft
- Smithtown1,070 ft
- Pinnacle1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina124th highest of 782
- Towns in Surry County6th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Rock4,660 ft
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 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.