Webster, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,140 ft 955 m2,850 ft 870 m2,710 ft 825 m2,420 ft 735 m2,130 ft 650 m1,980 ft 605 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Webster sits at about 2,220 ft (680 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,220 ft 680 m
most residents: 2,070–2,280 ft
Lowest
1,980 ft 605 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,140 ft 955 m
on Kings Mountain
Average
2,240 ft 685 m
all land inside town limits
Webster spans about 1,160 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 | 2,220 ft680 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on Kings Mountain | 3,140 ft955 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Webster | 2,150 ft655 m |
| Airport (24A) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi south of the town limits | 2,857 ft871 m |
| Average of all land | 2,240 ft685 m |
| Nearest peak Cowee Bald, 6.1 mi west of the town limits | 4,960 ft1,510 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 388 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 347 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.3462° N, 83.2193° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Tuckasegee River → Little Tennessee River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Jackson County (24A) 2,857 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 28779 28788
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Glenville3,660 ft
- Maggie Valley2,980 ft
- Cherokee2,470 ft
- Forest Hills2,260 ft
- Webster2,220 ft
- Cullowhee2,180 ft
- Sylva2,140 ft
- Franklin2,110 ft
- Dillsboro2,050 ft
- Whittier1,950 ft
- Bryson City1,870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina47th highest of 782
- Towns in Jackson County5th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Richland Balsam6,400 ft
- Mount Lyn Lowry6,220 ft
- Cataloochee Balsam5,940 ft
- Yellow Mountain5,137 ft
- Cowee Bald4,960 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, 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.