Saxapahaw, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m570 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m490 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 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
Saxapahaw sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 155 m
most residents: 490–520 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the southeast side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the north side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Saxapahaw spans about 210 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Saxapahaw | 440 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,671 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 322 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.9474° N, 79.3220° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Haw River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 27253 27340
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mebane650 ft
- Green Level630 ft
- Efland630 ft
- Burlington630 ft
- Woodlawn600 ft
- Alamance590 ft
- Graham590 ft
- Haw River580 ft
- Swepsonville570 ft
- Saxapahaw500 ft
- Carrboro460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina329th highest of 782
- Towns in Alamance Countylowest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
- Bass Mountain870 ft
- Thompson Mountain723 ft
- Mitchell Mountain, Orange County710 ft
- Crawford Mountain, Orange County670 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.
- Saxapahaw 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.