Salisbury, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m710 ft 215 m650 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Salisbury sits at about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 225 m
most residents: 690–770 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the north side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the southwest side
Average
730 ft 220 m
all land inside city limits
Salisbury spans about 220 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 | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 630 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Salisbury | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (RUQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.2 mi southwest of the city limits | 772 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 36,579 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,555 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6710° N, 80.4742° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Mid-Carolina Regional (RUQ) 772 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 28144 28146 28147
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Faith870 ft
- Landis830 ft
- China Grove800 ft
- Granite Quarry780 ft
- Tyro770 ft
- Rockwell760 ft
- Salisbury730 ft
- Cooleemee720 ft
- East Spencer710 ft
- Spencer710 ft
- Southmont660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina244th highest of 782
- Towns in Rowan County9th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
- High Rock Mountain1,180 ft
- Youngs Mountain, Rowan County1,090 ft
- Dunn Mountain1,011 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.