Polkton, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m360 ft 110 m310 ft 95 m270 ft 80 m240 ft 75 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
Polkton sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 300–350 ft
Lowest
240 ft 75 m
on the southeast side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the north side
Average
320 ft 95 m
all land inside town limits
Polkton spans about 190 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 240 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Polkton | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (AFP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi east of the town limits | 300 ft91 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Anson County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 2,698 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 878 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0077° N, 80.2009° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Anson County/Jeff Cloud Field (AFP) 300 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28135
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wingate570 ft
- Marshville550 ft
- Lilesville480 ft
- Aquadale460 ft
- Peachland450 ft
- Wadesboro450 ft
- Mount Croghan, SC410 ft
- Norwood370 ft
- Morven360 ft
- Polkton350 ft
- Ansonville320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina379th highest of 782
- Towns in Anson County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Polk Mountain660 ft
- Gordon Mountain, Anson County630 ft
- Rebel Hill610 ft
- Ingram Mountain530 ft
- Becky Hill470 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.