Statesville, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 305 m940 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 225 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Statesville sits at about 880 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 265 m
most residents: 810–930 ft
Lowest
730 ft 225 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the northwest side
Average
860 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Statesville spans about 280 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 | 880 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 730 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Statesville | 910 ft280 m |
| Airport (SVH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 968 ft295 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 31,693 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,022 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7826° N, 80.8873° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Statesville Regional (SVH) 968 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 28625 28677
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Love Valley1,180 ft
- Hiddenite1,110 ft
- Stony Point1,020 ft
- Claremont950 ft
- Harmony950 ft
- Catawba890 ft
- Troutman880 ft
- Statesville880 ft
- Mooresville840 ft
- Lake Norman of Catawba810 ft
- Cleveland780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina178th highest of 782
- Towns in Iredell County4th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Jefferson4,650 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Icy Knob2,980 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 550 ft at 35.8038° N, 80.9201° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.