North Carolina topographic maps
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Highlands
United States > North Carolina > Macon County > Highlands
Highlands was founded in 1875 after its two founders, Samuel Truman Kelsey and Clinton Carter Hutchinson, drew lines from Chicago to Savannah and from New Orleans to New York City. They felt that the place where these lines met would eventually become a great trading center and commercial crossroads. Highlands…
Average elevation: 1,090 m

Blue Ridge Parkway
United States > North Carolina > Watauga County
The parkway has been the most visited unit of the National Park System every year since 1946 except four (1949, 2013, 2016 and 2019). Land on either side of the road is owned and maintained by the National Park Service, and in many places parkway land is bordered by United States Forest Service property. There…
Average elevation: 504 m

Watauga County
United States > North Carolina
Watauga County is extremely mountainous, and all of the county's terrain is located within the Appalachian Mountains range. The highest point in the county is Calloway Peak, the highest peak of Grandfather Mountain (shared with the adjacent counties of Avery and Caldwell), which rises to 5,964 feet (1,818…
Average elevation: 984 m

Parmele Isles
United States > North Carolina > New Hanover County > Wrightsville Beach
Average elevation: 1 m

Wolf Creek Lake
United States > North Carolina > Jackson County > Wolf Mountain
Average elevation: 1,021 m

Mount Mitchell State Park
United States > North Carolina > Yancey County > Burnsville
In addition to Mount Mitchell itself, the park encompasses several other peaks which top out at over 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in elevation, including Mount Hallback, Mount Craig (just 52 feet (16 m) shy of Mount Mitchell in elevation and the second highest peak east of the Mississippi River), Big Tom and Balsam…
Average elevation: 1,271 m

Haw Creek Park
United States > North Carolina > Buncombe County > Asheville > Dogwood Grove
Average elevation: 666 m

Swan Quarter
United States > North Carolina > Hyde County
Swan Quarter is in western Hyde County at latitude 35.405 N and longitude 76.331 W. The elevation is 3 feet (0.91 m) above sea level. It is located on Swanquarter Bay, an inlet of Pamlico Sound.
Average elevation: 2 m

Sherwood Village
United States > North Carolina > Guilford County > High Point
Average elevation: 262 m

Old Providence
United States > North Carolina > Mecklenburg County > Charlotte
Average elevation: 192 m

Carolina Harbor
United States > North Carolina > Mecklenburg County > Charlotte
Average elevation: 187 m

Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve
United States > North Carolina > Moore County > Southern Pines
Average elevation: 145 m

Long Leaf Acres
United States > North Carolina > New Hanover County > Wilmington
Average elevation: 11 m

Bald Head Island
United States > North Carolina > Brunswick County > Bald Head Island
Average elevation: 3 m

Boiling Spring Lake Dam
United States > North Carolina > Brunswick County > Boiling Spring Lakes
Average elevation: 14 m

Ballantyne's Backyard
United States > North Carolina > Mecklenburg County > Charlotte
Average elevation: 183 m

Loch Lommond
United States > North Carolina > Cumberland County > Fayetteville
Average elevation: 70 m

Zebulon
United States > North Carolina > Wake County
Zebulon is located in the northeast central region of North Carolina, where the North American Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions meet. This area is known as the "Fall Line" because it marks the elevation inland at which waterfalls begin to appear in creeks and rivers. Its central Piedmont location…
Average elevation: 91 m

Banner Elk
United States > North Carolina > Avery County
Banner Elk is located in North America's humid continental climate zone due to its elevation, which gives it a climate more like that of Altoona, Pennsylvania, than Asheville, North Carolina, during the winter. During the summer the temperatures are much like a mountain lake town in New Hampshire. The town…
Average elevation: 1,164 m