Pender County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
110 ft 35 m83 ft 25 m68 ft 21 m40 ft 12 m11 ft 3 m−4 ft −1 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
Pender County averages about 35 ft (11 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4 ft below sea level on the east side to 110 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
35 ft 11 m
all land inside the county
Highest
110 ft 35 m
on the west side
Lowest
−4 ft −1 m
on the east side
Pender County spans about 114 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.
2% of Pender County's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 5% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 35 ft11 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 110 ft35 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | −4 ft−1 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
30 mi south to north through Hampstead.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 70,077 2024 est.
- Land area
- 871.3 sq mi + 62.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 80 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain 98%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Sampson County130 ft
- Duplin County95 ft
- Bladen County83 ft
- Columbus County68 ft
- Onslow County42 ft
- Brunswick County39 ft
- Pender County35 ft
- New Hanover County22 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina85th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States3,060th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Sand Ball Hill40 ft
- Pine Island34 ft
All 9 towns in Pender County by typical elevation
- Atkinson60 ft
- Watha53 ft
- Rocky Point53 ft
- St. Helena52 ft
- Burgaw49 ft
- Hampstead27 ft
- Long Creek14 ft
- Surf City10 ft
- Topsail Beach7 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.
- 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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.