Washington County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
110 ft 35 m85 ft 26 m71 ft 22 m42 ft 13 m14 ft 4 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
Washington County averages about 13 ft (4 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Swan Bay to 110 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
13 ft 4 m
all land inside the county
Highest
110 ft 35 m
on the west side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Swan Bay
Washington County spans about 110 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.
Under 1% of Washington County's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 10% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 13 ft4 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 110 ft35 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Swan Bay | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through Plymouth.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 10,654 2024 est.
- Land area
- 346.5 sq mi + 75.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain 99%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Martin County48 ft
- Bertie County39 ft
- Beaufort County22 ft
- Chowan County19 ft
- Washington County13 ft
- Perquimans County12 ft
- Hyde County3 ft
- Tyrrell County3 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina91st highest of 100
- Counties in the United States3,108th highest of 3,151
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, −6 ft at 35.9018° N, 76.7121° 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.