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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

Guilford County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 239 m

Greenville

United States > North Carolina > Pitt County

Average elevation: 16 m

Midway

United States > North Carolina > Davidson County

Average elevation: 257 m

Cowee

United States > North Carolina > Macon County

Average elevation: 646 m

Cove

United States > North Carolina > Haywood County

Average elevation: 925 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

Low Gap

United States > North Carolina > Yancey County

Average elevation: 994 m

Butner

United States > North Carolina > Granville County

Average elevation: 100 m

Rowland

United States > North Carolina > Robeson County

Average elevation: 45 m

Flat Top

United States > North Carolina > Buncombe County

Average elevation: 1,091 m

Dresden

United States > North Carolina > Ashe County

Average elevation: 941 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

Harley

United States > North Carolina > Wilkes County

Average elevation: 568 m

Mollie Gap

United States > North Carolina > Haywood County

Average elevation: 1,464 m

Orion

United States > North Carolina > Ashe County

Average elevation: 880 m

Tysonville

United States > North Carolina > Wake County > Raleigh

Average elevation: 118 m

Warrior

United States > North Carolina > Caldwell County

Average elevation: 431 m

Mount Ulla

United States > North Carolina > Rowan County

Average elevation: 238 m

Ashe County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 952 m

Buncombe County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 839 m

Shookville

United States > North Carolina > Macon County

Average elevation: 1,172 m

Cox

United States > North Carolina > Polk County

Average elevation: 251 m

Ashford

United States > North Carolina > McDowell County

Average elevation: 660 m

Plumtree

United States > North Carolina > Avery County

Average elevation: 1,008 m

Ashland

United States > North Carolina > Ashe County

Average elevation: 981 m

Long Bay

United States > North Carolina > Bladen County

Average elevation: 21 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

Tusk

United States > North Carolina > Carteret County

Average elevation: 2 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

Trinity

United States > North Carolina > Union County

Average elevation: 190 m

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