St. Helena, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
70 ft 21 m62 ft 19 m58 ft 18 m49 ft 15 m41 ft 13 m37 ft 11 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
St. Helena sits at about 52 ft (16 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
52 ft 16 m
most residents: 43–56 ft
Lowest
37 ft 11 m
on the east side
Highest
58 ft 18 m
on the southwest side
Average
53 ft 16 m
all land inside village limits
St. Helena is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 21 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 52 ft16 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 58 ft18 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 37 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for St. Helena | 55 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 53 ft16 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Pender County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 437 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.6 sq mi
- Density
- 78 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.5166° N, 77.9155° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Northeast Cape Fear River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 28425
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Atkinson60 ft
- Watha53 ft
- Rocky Point53 ft
- St. Helena52 ft
- Burgaw49 ft
- Northchase36 ft
- Blue Clay Farms34 ft
- Hampstead27 ft
- Skippers Corner26 ft
- Castle Hayne16 ft
- Long Creek14 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina618th highest of 782
- Towns in Pender County4th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Ball Hill40 ft
- Pine Island34 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.