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Durham County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 128 m

Valley

United States > North Carolina > Avery County

Average elevation: 1,265 m

Highlands

United States > North Carolina > Macon County > Highlands

Highlands was founded in 1875 after its two founders, Samuel Truman Kelsey and Clinton Carter Hutchinson, drew lines from Chicago to Savannah and from New Orleans to New York City. They felt that the place where these lines met would eventually become a great trading center and commercial crossroads. Highlands…

Average elevation: 1,090 m

Blue Ridge Parkway

United States > North Carolina > Watauga County

The parkway has been the most visited unit of the National Park System every year since 1946 except four (1949, 2013, 2016 and 2019).[4][5] Land on either side of the road is owned and maintained by the National Park Service, and in many places parkway land is bordered by United States Forest Service property.…

Average elevation: 505 m

Lake James

United States > North Carolina > Burke County

Lake James is a large reservoir in the mountains of Western North Carolina which straddles the border between Burke and McDowell Counties. It is named for tobacco tycoon and benefactor of Duke University James Buchanan Duke. The lake, with surface elevation of 1200 ft (366 m), lies behind a series of 3 earthen…

Average elevation: 381 m

Dare County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 1 m

Brasstown

United States > North Carolina > Clay County

Average elevation: 524 m

Mount Mitchell

United States > North Carolina > Yancey County

Mount Mitchell, known in Cherokee as Attakulla, is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland eastern North America. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles (31 km) northeast of…

Average elevation: 1,743 m

Ashe County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 952 m

Onslow County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 11 m

Halifax

United States > North Carolina > Halifax County

Average elevation: 28 m

Guilford County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 239 m

Hays

United States > North Carolina > Wilkes County

Average elevation: 380 m

Cherokee County

United States > North Carolina

Cherokee County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It borders Tennessee to its west and Georgia to its south. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,444. The county seat is Murphy, population 1,627 (2010), elevation 1604 ft.

Average elevation: 655 m

Globe

United States > North Carolina > Caldwell County

Average elevation: 489 m

Erwin

United States > North Carolina > Harnett County

Average elevation: 50 m

Banner Elk

United States > North Carolina > Avery County

Banner Elk is nestled within the Blue Ridge Mountains, characterized by rugged and varied terrain. The town itself sits at an elevation of around 3,700 feet, offering expansive views of the surrounding peaks and valleys. This region, part of the southern Appalachian range, includes steep slopes, dense forests,…

Average elevation: 1,165 m

Fleetwood

United States > North Carolina > Ashe County

Average elevation: 936 m

Pitt County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 16 m

Watauga County

United States > North Carolina

Watauga County is extremely mountainous, and all of the county's terrain is located within the Appalachian Mountains range. The highest point in the county is Calloway Peak, the highest peak of Grandfather Mountain (shared with the adjacent counties of Avery and Caldwell), which rises to 5,964 feet (1,818…

Average elevation: 984 m

Boone

United States > North Carolina > Watauga County

Boone has an elevation of 3,333 feet (1,016 m) above sea level. An earlier survey gave the elevation as 3,332 ft and since then it has been published as 3,333 ft (1,016 m). Boone has the highest elevation of any town of its size (over 10,000 population) east of the Mississippi River. As such, Boone features,…

Average elevation: 1,069 m

Avery County

United States > North Carolina

Avery County is extremely rural and mountainous with all of the county's terrain located within the Appalachian Mountains range; with a mean altitude of 3,510 feet or 1,070 metres it is the second-highest county east of the Mississippi behind nearby Haywood County. The highest point in the county is Grassy…

Average elevation: 1,006 m

Craggy

United States > North Carolina > Buncombe County > Woodfin

Average elevation: 642 m

Appalachian Mountains

United States > North Carolina > Yancey County

The range is older than the other major mountain range in North America, the Rocky Mountains of the west. Some of the outcrops in the Appalachians contain rocks formed during the Precambrian era. The geologic processes that led to the formation of the Appalachian Mountains started 1.1 billion years ago. The…

Average elevation: 1,463 m

Marion

United States > North Carolina > McDowell County

With an elevation of 1,400 feet, Marion's climate is fairly warm during summer (which are typically longer than lower elevation areas in the United States that get the same average high and low temperatures in the summer), when temperatures tend to be in the 80s and 90s, and moderately cold during the winter,…

Average elevation: 435 m

Buncombe County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 839 m

Rowan County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 228 m

Pineola

United States > North Carolina > Avery County

Average elevation: 1,107 m

Cape Fear River

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 39 m

Ossipee

United States > North Carolina > Alamance County

Average elevation: 198 m

Deep River

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 179 m

Red Cross

United States > North Carolina > Stanly County

Average elevation: 182 m

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