Sawmills, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,230 ft 375 m1,190 ft 360 m1,110 ft 340 m1,030 ft 315 m990 ft 305 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
Sawmills sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,140–1,230 ft
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the south side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the west side
Average
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside town limits
Sawmills spans about 320 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 990 ft300 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sawmills | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Airport (HKY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi southeast of the town limits | 1,190 ft363 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 5,059 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 761 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.8249° N, 81.4745° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Catawba River → Wateree River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hickory Regional (HKY) 1,190 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 28630 28638
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cajah's Mountain1,290 ft
- Hudson1,220 ft
- Connelly Springs1,210 ft
- Lenoir1,200 ft
- Rutherford College1,190 ft
- Sawmills1,180 ft
- Icard1,150 ft
- Granite Falls1,140 ft
- Gamewell1,120 ft
- Rhodhiss1,070 ft
- Northlakes1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina107th highest of 782
- Towns in Caldwell County5th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Calloway Peak5,930 ft
- Beech Mountain5,506 ft
- Dobson Knob3,705 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 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.