Parmele, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
95 ft 29 m87 ft 27 m83 ft 25 m75 ft 23 m67 ft 20 m63 ft 19 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Parmele sits at about 74 ft (22 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
74 ft 22 m
most residents: 71–75 ft
Lowest
63 ft 19 m
on the east side
Highest
77 ft 24 m
on the west side
Average
74 ft 23 m
all land inside town limits
Parmele is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 14 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 74 ft22 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 77 ft24 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 63 ft19 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Parmele | 75 ft23 m |
| Airport (PGV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi south of the town limits | 26 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 74 ft23 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Martin County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 243 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 210 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.8165° N, 77.3141° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Pamlico River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Pitt-Greenville (PGV) 26 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 27861 27871
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oak City81 ft
- Hassell78 ft
- Parmele74 ft
- Hamilton73 ft
- Robersonville71 ft
- Bethel64 ft
- Everetts61 ft
- Bear Grass56 ft
- Conetoe50 ft
- Stokes42 ft
- Belvoir37 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina573rd highest of 782
- Towns in Martin County3rd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Hill74 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).
- 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. All public domain.