Topsail Beach, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
29 ft 9 m21 ft 6 m17 ft 5 m8 ft 3 m0 ft 0 m−4 ft −1 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Topsail Beach sits at about 7 ft (2 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
7 ft 2 m
most residents: 3–10 ft
Lowest
−4 ft −1 m
on the northeast side
Highest
17 ft 5 m
on the northeast side
Average
0 ft 0 m
all land inside town limits
Topsail Beach is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 21 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
74% of Topsail Beach's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 16% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 7 ft2 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 17 ft5 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | −4 ft−1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Topsail Beach | 6 ft2 m |
| Average of all land | 0 ft0 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Pender County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 500 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.4 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 114 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.3652° N, 77.6305° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 28445
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Holly Ridge46 ft
- Murraysville42 ft
- Hampstead27 ft
- Folkstone26 ft
- Porters Neck24 ft
- Ogden19 ft
- Bayshore17 ft
- Surf City10 ft
- Topsail Beach7 ft
- Wrightsville Beach6 ft
- North Topsail Beach0 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina747th highest of 782
- Towns in Pender Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Island34 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.