Pilot Mountain, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,260 ft 385 m1,190 ft 360 m1,150 ft 350 m1,070 ft 325 m990 ft 305 m950 ft 290 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
Pilot Mountain sits at about 1,110 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,110 ft 340 m
most residents: 1,070–1,170 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the west side
Highest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside town limits
Pilot Mountain spans about 310 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 | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pilot Mountain | 1,160 ft350 m |
| Airport (MWK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi northwest of the town limits | 1,269 ft387 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Surry County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,430 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 700 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.3865° N, 80.4695° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Mount Airy/Surry County (MWK) 1,269 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 27041
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White Plains1,140 ft
- Pilot Mountain1,110 ft
- Flat Rock, Surry County1,110 ft
- Mount Airy1,080 ft
- Toast1,080 ft
- Smithtown1,070 ft
- King1,040 ft
- East Bend1,030 ft
- Pinnacle1,010 ft
- Tobaccoville970 ft
- Rural Hall970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina117th highest of 782
- Towns in Surry County4th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.