Pinnacle, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,090 ft 330 m1,040 ft 320 m960 ft 290 m870 ft 265 m830 ft 255 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
Pinnacle sits at about 1,010 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 310 m
most residents: 940–1,070 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the south side
Average
990 ft 305 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pinnacle spans about 340 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 | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pinnacle | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft305 m |
| Nearest peak Moores Knob, 8.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 2,580 ft786 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 786 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Density
- 218 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.3293° N, 80.4331° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 27043
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White Plains1,140 ft
- Pilot Mountain1,110 ft
- Smithtown1,070 ft
- King1,040 ft
- East Bend1,030 ft
- Pinnacle1,010 ft
- Tobaccoville970 ft
- Rural Hall970 ft
- Danbury900 ft
- Bethania870 ft
- Germanton730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina143rd highest of 782
- Towns in Stokes County2nd highest of 4
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 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.
- Pinnacle 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.