Yadkin County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,750 ft 535 m1,490 ft 455 m1,350 ft 415 m1,090 ft 330 m830 ft 250 m690 ft 210 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
Yadkin County averages about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 690 ft on the southeast side to 1,750 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
950 ft 290 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,750 ft 535 m
on the west side
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the southeast side
Yadkin County spans about 1,060 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Yadkinville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 37,995 2024 est.
- Land area
- 334.9 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 113 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wilkes County1,490 ft
- Surry County1,220 ft
- Yadkin County950 ft
- Iredell County900 ft
- Forsyth County860 ft
- Davie County760 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina28th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States1,486th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Rock House Mountain1,650 ft
- Star Peak1,550 ft
- Bald Knob, Yadkin County1,450 ft
- Hemric Mountain1,420 ft
All 5 towns in Yadkin County by typical elevation
- Smithtown1,070 ft
- Boonville1,030 ft
- East Bend1,030 ft
- Jonesville960 ft
- Yadkinville940 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, 690 ft at 36.0538° N, 80.5135° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.