Tyrrell County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
33 ft 10 m25 ft 8 m21 ft 6 m12 ft 4 m4 ft 1 m0 ft 0 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
Tyrrell County averages about 3 ft (1 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Bull Bay to 28 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
3 ft 1 m
all land inside the county
Highest
28 ft 9 m
on the west side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Bull Bay
Tyrrell County is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 28 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
2% of Tyrrell County's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 72% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 3 ft1 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 28 ft9 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Bull Bay | 0 ft0 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 3,517 2024 est.
- Land area
- 390.8 sq mi + 206.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.0 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain 96%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Washington County13 ft
- Perquimans County12 ft
- Pasquotank County9 ft
- Camden County8 ft
- Currituck County5 ft
- Hyde County3 ft
- Dare County3 ft
- Tyrrell County3 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolinalowest of 100
- Counties in the United States3,142nd highest of 3,151
The one town in Tyrrell County
- Columbia2 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −16 ft at 35.9360° N, 76.3404° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.