Elevation of Folkestad, Telemark, Norway

Folkestad, Telemark, Norway is 157 m (515 ft) above sea level.

Folkestad's height from sea level is 157 metres, or 515 feet. GeoNames reads 108 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Folkestadgrenda.

Ground within 4 km

41 m – 671 m

Mean 212 m across the 7.7 km square centred on the town, 630 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 33

among the towns of Telemark, and 194th of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

3.8 km to the S, at 71 m, 86 m lower.

Cross-section through Folkestad

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Folkestad; the vertical scale is the same on both.

76619WE21.7 km
West to east: from 687 m at 11 km west to 629 m at 11 km east.
76619NS21.7 km
North to south: from 476 m at 11 km north to 257 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Folkestad, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 46 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Folkestad

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bø 3.8 kmS 71 m (233 ft) −86 m
Gvarv 8.6 kmSE 24 m (79 ft) −133 m
Akkerhaug 11.6 kmSE 76 m (249 ft) −81 m
Yli 14.3 kmNE 47 m (154 ft) −110 m
Nordagutu 14.8 kmE 138 m (453 ft) −19 m

Where Folkestad is

Latitude 59.447304, longitude 9.071626. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Folkestad elevation: 157 m (515 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Folkestad's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 108 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.