Elevation of Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America is 248 m (814 ft) above sea level.
Gastonia's height from sea level is 248 metres, or 814 feet. GeoNames reads 249 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 243 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 236 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 45 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Carolina, and 269th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Gastonia
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gastonia; 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 Gastonia
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | 31.5 km | E | 233 m (764 ft) | −15 m |
| Huntersville | 35.3 km | NE | 245 m (804 ft) | −3 m |
Peaks and passes near Gastonia
- Crowders Mountain, peak at 460 m (1,509 ft), 8.7 km to the W — 212 m above the town.
- Spencer Mountain, peak at 382 m (1,253 ft), 7.6 km to the NE — 134 m above the town.
- Henry Knob, peak at 344 m (1,129 ft), 16.6 km to the SW — 96 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Gastonia is
Latitude 35.262082, longitude -81.1873005. 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 Gastonia'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 249 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.