Sunbury, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
45 ft 14 m36 ft 11 m32 ft 10 m24 ft 7 m16 ft 5 m12 ft 4 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sunbury sits at about 34 ft (10 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
34 ft 10 m
most residents: 22–36 ft
Lowest
12 ft 4 m
on the west side
Highest
38 ft 12 m
near the middle
Average
29 ft 9 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sunbury is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 26 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 34 ft10 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 38 ft12 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 12 ft4 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sunbury | 34 ft10 m |
| Average of all land | 29 ft9 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Gates County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 276 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Density
- 113 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4410° N, 76.6116° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Chowan River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 27979
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Colerain60 ft
- Harrellsville60 ft
- Winton44 ft
- Cofield41 ft
- Chowan Beach35 ft
- Sunbury34 ft
- Arrowhead Beach23 ft
- Gatesville20 ft
- Hertford11 ft
- Winfall11 ft
- South Mills6 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina654th highest of 782
- Towns in Gates Countyhighest of 2
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Sunbury is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.