Wade, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
170 ft 55 m150 ft 45 m140 ft 45 m120 ft 35 m100 ft 30 m91 ft 28 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
Wade sits at about 130 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
130 ft 40 m
most residents: 110–150 ft
Lowest
91 ft 28 m
on the northwest side
Highest
170 ft 55 m
on the northeast side
Average
130 ft 40 m
all land inside town limits
Wade spans about 79 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 | 130 ft40 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 170 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 91 ft28 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wade | 140 ft40 m |
| Airport (FAY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi southwest of the town limits | 189 ft58 m |
| Average of all land | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 649 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 372 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1629° N, 78.7361° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Fayetteville Regional/Grannis Field (FAY) 189 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 28395
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fayetteville210 ft
- Plain View190 ft
- Erwin190 ft
- Godwin160 ft
- Bunnlevel140 ft
- Falcon140 ft
- Wade130 ft
- Eastover130 ft
- Vander130 ft
- Stedman130 ft
- Linden110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina498th highest of 782
- Towns in Cumberland County6th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Vaughn Hill425 ft
- West Newton Hill380 ft
- Hams Hill310 ft
- Killens Hill290 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).
- 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, 88 ft at 35.1713° N, 78.7532° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.