Nash County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
360 ft 110 m290 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m180 ft 55 m100 ft 30 m64 ft 20 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
Nash County averages about 190 ft (60 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 64 ft on the east side to 360 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
190 ft 60 m
all land inside the county
Highest
360 ft 110 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
64 ft 19 m
on the east side
Nash County spans about 296 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 | 190 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 64 ft19 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Nashville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 97,990 2024 est.
- Land area
- 540.4 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 181 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Coastal Plain 57%, Piedmont 43%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Franklin County310 ft
- Johnston County190 ft
- Nash County190 ft
- Halifax County140 ft
- Wilson County130 ft
- Edgecombe County79 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina64th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,788th highest of 3,151
All 11 towns in Nash County by typical elevation
- Castalia290 ft
- Spring Hope260 ft
- Momeyer260 ft
- Middlesex250 ft
- Bailey250 ft
- Red Oak190 ft
- Nashville180 ft
- Dortches170 ft
- Sharpsburg140 ft
- Whitakers130 ft
- Rocky Mount120 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, −36 ft at 36.0624° N, 77.8363° 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.