South Mills, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
53 ft 16 m40 ft 12 m33 ft 10 m20 ft 6 m7 ft 2 m0 ft 0 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
South Mills sits at about 6 ft (2 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6 ft 2 m
most residents: 1–8 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the south side
Highest
53 ft 16 m
on the northwest side
Average
4 ft 1 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Mills spans about 53 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.
0% of South Mills's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 53% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 6 ft2 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 53 ft16 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Mills | 10 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 4 ft1 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Camden County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 362 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 202 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4457° N, 76.3274° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Pasquotank River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 27976
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sunbury34 ft
- Suffolk, VA22 ft
- Gatesville20 ft
- Chesapeake, VA15 ft
- Hertford11 ft
- Winfall11 ft
- Moyock8 ft
- Camden8 ft
- Elizabeth City7 ft
- South Mills6 ft
- Coinjock3 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina754th highest of 782
- Towns in Camden Countylowest of 2
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.
- South Mills 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 tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.