Murfreesboro, NC Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Murfreesboro, North Carolina, shaded from 0 ft on the east side to 96 ft on the west side
Elevation
96 ft 29 m72 ft 22 m60 ft 18 m36 ft 11 m12 ft 4 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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.
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
Town area
Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Murfreesboro sits at about 74 ft (23 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
74 ft 23 m
most residents: 44–92 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the east side
Highest
96 ft 29 m
on the west side
Average
66 ft 20 m
all land inside town limits

Murfreesboro spans about 96 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.

Under 1% of Murfreesboro's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 3% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
74 ft23 m
Highest point
Inside town limits, on the west side
96 ft29 m
Lowest point
Inside town limits, on the east side
0 ft0 m
Town center
USGS map point for Murfreesboro
82 ft25 m
Average of all land66 ft20 m

Elevation profile, west to east

2.1 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Murfreesboro, North Carolina, shaded from 0 ft on the east side to 96 ft on the west side
Town limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
Town in Hertford County, North Carolina, United States
Population
2,277 2024 est.
Land area
2.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density
1,002 per sq mi
Coordinates
36.4424° N, 77.0986° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Chowan River → Atlantic Ocean
ZIP codes 1
27855
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Conway90 ft
  2. Milwaukee84 ft
  3. Murfreesboro74 ft
  4. Severn73 ft
  5. Como67 ft
  6. Woodland63 ft
  7. Ahoskie48 ft
  8. Winton44 ft
  9. Branchville, VA42 ft
  10. Cofield41 ft
  11. Boykins, VA39 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

How we measure
  • Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); BTS time zones; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.