Rockingham County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m910 ft 275 m830 ft 255 m680 ft 210 m530 ft 160 m460 ft 140 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
Rockingham County averages about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 460 ft on the northeast side to 1,060 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
720 ft 220 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the northeast side
Rockingham County spans about 600 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
28 mi west to east through Eden.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 93,517 2024 est.
- Land area
- 565.7 sq mi + 7.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Stokes County970 ft
- Henry County, VA920 ft
- Guilford County780 ft
- Rockingham County720 ft
- Pittsylvania County, VA700 ft
- Alamance County610 ft
- Caswell County580 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina38th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States1,998th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cedder Mountain998 ft
- Brush Mountain, Rockingham County990 ft
All 7 towns in Rockingham County by typical elevation
- Reidsville800 ft
- Wentworth780 ft
- Stoneville780 ft
- Mayodan650 ft
- Ruffin650 ft
- Madison630 ft
- Eden600 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. All public domain.