Northlakes, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,080 ft 330 m1,060 ft 320 m1,010 ft 305 m960 ft 290 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Northlakes sits at about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
most residents: 950–1,050 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the south side
Average
1,020 ft 310 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Northlakes spans about 200 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Northlakes | 930 ft285 m |
| Airport (HKY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi south of the CDP boundary | 1,190 ft363 m |
| Average of all land | 1,020 ft310 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 Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,543 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,034 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7818° N, 81.3751° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hickory Regional (HKY) 1,190 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28601
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sawmills1,180 ft
- Icard1,150 ft
- Granite Falls1,140 ft
- Hildebran1,130 ft
- Long View1,110 ft
- Hickory1,090 ft
- St. Stephens1,070 ft
- Rhodhiss1,070 ft
- Bethlehem1,050 ft
- Northlakes1,020 ft
- Brookford960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina142nd highest of 782
- Towns in Caldwell Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calloway Peak5,930 ft
- Beech Mountain5,506 ft
- Dobson Knob3,705 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 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.
- Northlakes 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.