North Wilkesboro, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,380 ft 420 m1,260 ft 385 m1,210 ft 370 m1,100 ft 335 m990 ft 300 m930 ft 285 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
North Wilkesboro sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 980–1,180 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside town limits
North Wilkesboro spans about 450 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Wilkesboro | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (UKF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi northeast of the town limits | 1,303 ft397 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Nearest peak Pores Knob, 6.6 mi south of the town limits (NGS survey) | 2,673 ft815 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 4,412 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.6 sq mi
- Density
- 665 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1585° N, 81.1476° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes County (UKF) 1,303 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28659
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Millers Creek1,320 ft
- Hays1,280 ft
- Cricket1,240 ft
- Mulberry1,230 ft
- Fairplains1,190 ft
- Love Valley1,180 ft
- Moravian Falls1,150 ft
- North Wilkesboro1,100 ft
- Wilkesboro1,070 ft
- Pleasant Hill1,070 ft
- Ronda1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina121st highest of 782
- Towns in Wilkes County7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bluff Mountain5,080 ft
- Phoenix Mountain4,718 ft
- Mount Jefferson4,650 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
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).
- 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, 930 ft at 36.1715° N, 81.1204° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.