Surry County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,560 ft 1,085 m2,860 ft 870 m2,500 ft 765 m1,800 ft 550 m1,090 ft 335 m740 ft 225 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
Surry County averages about 1,220 ft (375 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 740 ft on the southeast side to 3,560 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,220 ft 375 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,560 ft 1,085 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the southeast side
Surry County spans about 2,820 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 | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,560 ft1,085 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
27 mi west to east through Mount Airy.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 71,547 2024 est.
- Land area
- 532.6 sq mi + 4.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 134 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 82%, Blue Ridge 18%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Grayson County, VA3,020 ft
- Alleghany County2,860 ft
- Carroll County, VA2,470 ft
- Patrick County, VA1,590 ft
- Wilkes County1,490 ft
- Surry County1,220 ft
- Stokes County970 ft
- Yadkin County950 ft
- Forsyth County860 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina23rd highest of 100
- Counties in the United States1,087th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pilot Mountain, Surry County2,418 ft
- Racoon Mountain2,170 ft
- Lens Knob2,170 ft
- Warrior Mountain, Surry County2,090 ft
- Round Peak2,070 ft
All 8 towns in Surry County by typical elevation
- Lowgap1,380 ft
- Dobson1,200 ft
- White Plains1,140 ft
- Pilot Mountain1,110 ft
- Flat Rock, Surry County1,110 ft
- Mount Airy1,080 ft
- Toast1,080 ft
- Elkin1,030 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. 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.