Elevation of Burlington, North Carolina, United States of America
Burlington, North Carolina, United States of America is 197 m (646 ft) above sea level.
Burlington's height from sea level is 197 metres, or 646 feet. GeoNames reads 197 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 193 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 189 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Carolina, and 367th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Burlington
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Burlington; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Burlington
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greensboro | 31.9 km | W | 249 m (817 ft) | +52 m |
| Chapel Hill | 39.9 km | SE | 148 m (486 ft) | −49 m |
Peaks and passes near Burlington
- Cane Creek Mountains, peak at 295 m (968 ft), 16.6 km to the S — 98 m above the town.
- Stony Creek Mountain, peak at 277 m (909 ft), 16.7 km to the N — 80 m above the town.
- Bass Mountain, peak at 265 m (869 ft), 17.1 km to the S — 68 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Burlington is
Latitude 36.0956918, longitude -79.4377991. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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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 Burlington'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 197 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.