Nebo, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,410 ft 430 m1,350 ft 415 m1,250 ft 380 m1,150 ft 350 m1,100 ft 335 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
Nebo sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,280 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,230–1,350 ft
Lowest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the east side
Average
1,270 ft 390 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Nebo spans about 410 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 | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nebo | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Average of all land | 1,270 ft390 m |
| Nearest peak Dobson Knob, 6.1 mi northwest of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 3,705 ft1,129 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 McDowell County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,790 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi
- Density
- 338 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7151° N, 81.9309° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 28761
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spruce Pine2,660 ft
- Old Fort1,470 ft
- West Marion1,430 ft
- Marion1,410 ft
- Glenwood1,340 ft
- Nebo1,280 ft
- Drexel1,210 ft
- Valdese1,200 ft
- Glen Alpine1,180 ft
- Salem1,180 ft
- Morganton1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina90th highest of 782
- Towns in McDowell Countylowest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Mitchell6,682 ft
- Dobson Knob3,705 ft
- Hickorynut Mountain3,220 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Youngs Mountain2,712 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.
- Nebo 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.