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North Carolina topographic maps

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Greenville

United States > North Carolina > Pitt County

Average elevation: 16 m

Durham County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 128 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).[4][5] 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.…

Average elevation: 505 m

Guilford County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 239 m

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

Doughton

United States > North Carolina > Wilkes County

Average elevation: 499 m

Willard

United States > North Carolina > Pender County

Average elevation: 16 m

Bald Head Island

United States > North Carolina > Brunswick County

Located at the tip of Cape Fear and residing at the convergence of the Cape Fear River and Atlantic Gulf Stream, the land mass of Bald Head Island ends, trailing off into 30 miles (48 km) of treacherous sand bars known as Frying Pan Shoals. In this area, large sand bars seasonally emerge from and subsequently…

Average elevation: 0 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

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

Onslow County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 11 m

Pitt County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 16 m

Pinehurst

United States > North Carolina > Moore County

Average elevation: 138 m

Ashland

United States > North Carolina > Ashe County

Average elevation: 981 m

Mars Hill

United States > North Carolina > Madison County

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all land. The town has an elevation of 2,330 feet (710 m), so the climate of the area is considerably cooler than might be expected of a town in a southern state.

Average elevation: 708 m

Swiss

United States > North Carolina > Yancey County

Average elevation: 935 m

Sophia

United States > North Carolina > Randolph County

Average elevation: 227 m

Highlands

United States > North Carolina > Macon County

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: 1,116 m

Dudley

United States > North Carolina > Wayne County

Average elevation: 53 m

Mountain Island Lake

United States > North Carolina > Gaston County > Mount Holly

Mountain Island Lake is a lake northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina created in 1924 to coincide with the building of Mountain Island Hydroelectric Station. It is named after the mountain which appears as an island in the lake, and the surrounding area is identified by the lake's name. The shape of the lake…

Average elevation: 216 m

Buncombe County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 839 m

Wingate

United States > North Carolina > Union County

Average elevation: 169 m

Nantahala

United States > North Carolina > Swain County

Average elevation: 890 m

Hays

United States > North Carolina > Wilkes County

Average elevation: 380 m

Rex

United States > North Carolina > Robeson County > Rex

Average elevation: 57 m

Valley

United States > North Carolina > Avery County

Average elevation: 1,265 m

Ennice

United States > North Carolina > Alleghany County

Average elevation: 794 m

Lake James

United States > North Carolina > Burke County

Lake James is a large reservoir in the mountains of Western North Carolina which straddles the border between Burke and McDowell Counties. It is named for tobacco tycoon and benefactor of Duke University James Buchanan Duke. The lake, with surface elevation of 1200 ft (366 m), lies behind a series of 3 earthen…

Average elevation: 381 m

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