Speed, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
80 ft 24 m72 ft 22 m68 ft 21 m60 ft 18 m51 ft 16 m47 ft 14 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
Speed sits at about 64 ft (19 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
64 ft 19 m
most residents: 53–71 ft
Lowest
47 ft 14 m
on the southwest side
Highest
77 ft 23 m
on the northeast side
Average
58 ft 18 m
all land inside town limits
Speed spans about 30 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 | 64 ft19 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 77 ft23 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 47 ft14 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Speed | 56 ft17 m |
| Airport (ETC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi west of the town limits | 53 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 58 ft18 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 65 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 214 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.9679° N, 77.4452° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tar River → Pamlico River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Tarboro-Edgecombe (ETC) 53 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 27881 27886
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Scotland Neck98 ft
- Hobgood89 ft
- Oak City81 ft
- Hassell78 ft
- Parmele74 ft
- Tarboro69 ft
- Bethel64 ft
- Speed64 ft
- Leggett63 ft
- Conetoe50 ft
- Princeville43 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina595th highest of 782
- Towns in Edgecombe County4th highest 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.