Scotland County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m350 ft 105 m260 ft 80 m180 ft 55 m130 ft 40 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
Scotland County averages about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 130 ft on the south side to 480 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the county
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the south side
Scotland County spans about 350 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 | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
28 mi south to north through Laurinburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 33,898 2024 est.
- Land area
- 319.1 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 106 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Richmond County340 ft
- Hoke County280 ft
- Scotland County260 ft
- Marlboro County, SC150 ft
- Robeson County140 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina61st highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,692nd highest of 3,151
All 8 towns in Scotland County by typical elevation
- Deercroft330 ft
- Old Hundred300 ft
- Gibson250 ft
- Laurel Hill240 ft
- Wagram230 ft
- Laurinburg220 ft
- Maxton partly190 ft
- Scotch Meadows190 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.