Elevation of Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America is 241 m (791 ft) above sea level.

Kannapolis's height from sea level is 241 metres, or 791 feet. GeoNames reads 247 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 253 m.

Ground within 5 km

195 m – 257 m

Mean 227 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 62 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 21

among the towns of North Carolina, and 280th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

9.5 km to the SE, at 210 m, 31 m lower.

Cross-section through Kannapolis

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 Kannapolis; the vertical scale is the same on both.

273179WE26.1 km
West to east: from 232 m at 13 km west to 223 m at 13 km east.
273179NS26.1 km
North to south: from 243 m at 13 km north to 186 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Kannapolis, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Kannapolis

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Concord 9.5 kmSE 210 m (689 ft) −31 m
Huntersville 21.8 kmSW 245 m (804 ft) +4 m
Charlotte 35.2 kmSW 233 m (764 ft) −8 m

Peaks and passes near Kannapolis

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Kannapolis is

Latitude 35.4873613, longitude -80.6217341. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kannapolis elevation: 241 m (791 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 Kannapolis'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 247 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.