Elevation of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States of America

Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States of America is 35 m (115 ft) above sea level.

Rocky Mount's height from sea level is 35 metres, or 115 feet. GeoNames reads 33 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 31 m.

Ground within 5 km

18 m – 45 m

Mean 35 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 27 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 21

among the towns of North Carolina, and 710th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

26.6 km to the SW, at 41 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Rocky Mount

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rocky Mount; the vertical scale is the same on both.

7514WE26 km
West to east: from 63 m at 13 km west to 31 m at 13 km east.
7514NS26 km
North to south: from 35 m at 13 km north to 34 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Rocky Mount, 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 Rocky Mount

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Wilson 26.6 kmSW 41 m (135 ft) +6 m

Where Rocky Mount is

Latitude 35.9382103, longitude -77.7905339. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rocky Mount elevation: 35 m (115 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 Rocky Mount'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 33 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.