Stanly County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m720 ft 220 m640 ft 195 m460 ft 140 m280 ft 85 m190 ft 55 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
Stanly County averages about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 190 ft on the southeast side to 904 ft on Morrow Mountain.
Average elevation
520 ft 160 m
all land inside the county
Highest
904 ft 275 m
on Morrow Mountain
Lowest
190 ft 55 m
on the southeast side
Stanly County spans about 710 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Morrow Mountain (NGS survey height) | 904 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 190 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
23 mi south to north through Albemarle.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 67,326 2024 est.
- Land area
- 395.1 sq mi + 9.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 170 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Davidson County750 ft
- Rowan County750 ft
- Cabarrus County650 ft
- Union County570 ft
- Stanly County520 ft
- Montgomery County520 ft
- Anson County340 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina47th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,297th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Morrow Mountain904 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Stanly County860 ft
- Hattaway Mountain840 ft
- Fall Mountain740 ft
- Stony Mountain, Stanly County730 ft
All 12 towns in Stanly County by typical elevation
- New London670 ft
- Misenheimer660 ft
- Locust660 ft
- Millingport650 ft
- Richfield640 ft
- Stanfield620 ft
- Red Cross620 ft
- Badin550 ft
- Albemarle540 ft
- Oakboro530 ft
- Aquadale460 ft
- Norwood370 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.