Stokes County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,580 ft 785 m2,080 ft 635 m1,820 ft 555 m1,320 ft 400 m810 ft 250 m560 ft 170 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
Stokes County averages about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 560 ft on the east side to 2,580 ft on Moores Knob.
Average elevation
970 ft 295 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,580 ft 786 m
on Moores Knob
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the east side
Stokes County spans about 2,020 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Moores Knob (NGS survey height) | 2,580 ft786 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through King.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 45,857 2024 est.
- Land area
- 449.3 sq mi + 6.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 102 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
- Patrick County, VA1,590 ft
- Surry County1,220 ft
- Stokes County970 ft
- Henry County, VA920 ft
- Forsyth County860 ft
- Rockingham County720 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina26th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States1,459th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
- Sauratown Mountain2,420 ft
- Devils Chimney2,390 ft
- Cole Gap Mountain2,020 ft
- Ruben Mountain1,810 ft
All 5 towns in Stokes County by typical elevation
- King1,040 ft
- Pinnacle1,010 ft
- Danbury900 ft
- Germanton partly730 ft
- Walnut Cove690 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.