Sims, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
240 ft 75 m220 ft 70 m210 ft 65 m200 ft 60 m180 ft 55 m170 ft 55 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Sims sits at about 220 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
220 ft 70 m
most residents: 200–220 ft
Lowest
170 ft 50 m
on the northeast side
Highest
240 ft 75 m
on the south side
Average
200 ft 60 m
all land inside town limits
Sims spans about 70 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 | 220 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 240 ft75 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 170 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sims | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (W03) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi east of the town limits | 160 ft49 m |
| Average of all land | 200 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Wilson County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 345 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,348 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7610° N, 78.0589° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Contentnea Creek → Neuse River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilson Industrial Air Center (W03) 160 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 27880
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spring Hope260 ft
- Momeyer260 ft
- Middlesex250 ft
- Bailey250 ft
- Sims220 ft
- Kenly190 ft
- Sharpsburg140 ft
- Elm City130 ft
- Wilson130 ft
- Lucama130 ft
- Black Creek120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina430th highest of 782
- Towns in Wilson Countyhighest of 7
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. All public domain.