Swannanoa, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,270 ft 1,300 m3,740 ft 1,140 m3,480 ft 1,060 m2,950 ft 900 m2,430 ft 740 m2,160 ft 660 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
Swannanoa sits at about 2,300 ft (700 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,300 ft 700 m
most residents: 2,210–2,480 ft
Lowest
2,160 ft 660 m
on the west side
Highest
4,270 ft 1,300 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,610 ft 795 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Swannanoa spans about 2,110 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 | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 4,270 ft1,300 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 2,160 ft660 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Swannanoa | 2,200 ft670 m |
| Airport (AVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 2,164 ft660 m |
| Average of all land | 2,610 ft795 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 5,021 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.4 sq mi
- Density
- 788 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.5979° N, 82.3998° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- French Broad River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Asheville Regional (AVL) 2,164 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28778
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gerton3,270 ft
- Montreat2,740 ft
- Black Mountain2,410 ft
- Fairview, Buncombe County2,370 ft
- Royal Pines2,340 ft
- Swannanoa2,300 ft
- Hoopers Creek2,260 ft
- Biltmore Forest2,200 ft
- Asheville2,160 ft
- Woodfin2,140 ft
- Emma2,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina40th highest of 782
- Towns in Buncombe County6th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Mitchell6,682 ft
- Little Pisgah Mountain4,410 ft
- Flat Top4,370 ft
- Bearwallow Mountain4,230 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain3,962 ft
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.
- Swannanoa 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.