Winston-Salem, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m890 ft 270 m820 ft 250 m690 ft 210 m550 ft 165 m480 ft 145 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Winston-Salem sits at about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 265 m
most residents: 780–940 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the northeast side
Average
860 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Winston-Salem spans about 550 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 | 860 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Winston-Salem | 910 ft280 m |
| Airport (INT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 969 ft295 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 255,769 2024 est.
- Land area
- 133.9 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,910 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0999° N, 80.2442° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Yadkin River → Great Pee Dee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Smith Reynolds (INT) 969 ft
- ZIP codes 12
- 27040 27045 27101 27103 27104 27105 27106 27107 27109 27110 27127 27284
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tobaccoville970 ft
- Rural Hall970 ft
- Kernersville950 ft
- Walkertown950 ft
- Wallburg880 ft
- Bethania870 ft
- Winston-Salem860 ft
- Lewisville850 ft
- Midway840 ft
- Clemmons780 ft
- Germanton730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina184th highest of 782
- Towns in Forsyth County6th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Point Lookout Mountain4,540 ft
- Peach Bottom Mountain4,125 ft
- Bull Mountain3,212 ft
- Pores Knob2,673 ft
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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, 480 ft at 36.1768° N, 80.2596° 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.