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Charlotte

United States > North Carolina > Mecklenburg County

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 312.00 square miles (808.1 km2), of which 310.02 square miles (802.9 km2) is land and 1.98 square miles (5.1 km2) (0.63%) is water. Charlotte is the twenty-sixth-most expansive city in the United States and lies at an elevation of 751…

Average elevation: 207 m

Madison County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 802 m

Shelby

United States > North Carolina > Cleveland County

Average elevation: 248 m

Union County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 172 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

Gates County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 11 m

Craven County

United States > North Carolina

Average elevation: 8 m

Maiden

United States > North Carolina > Catawba County

Average elevation: 273 m

Swain County

United States > North Carolina > Swain County

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Swain county has a total area of 541 square miles (1,400 km2), of which 528 square miles (1,370 km2) is land and 13 square miles (34 km2) (2.3%) is water. The county is located in the far western part of North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains and contains a larger…

Average elevation: 893 m

Bethesda

United States > North Carolina > Durham County > Durham

Average elevation: 118 m

Stone Mountain

United States > North Carolina > Wilkes County

Stone Mountain is the centerpiece of Stone Mountain State Park in North Carolina. It is a dome of exposed granite (specifically a quartz diorite to granodiorite) of Devonian age, which has intruded into the gneiss of the Precambrian Alligator Back Formation. It rises sharply over 600 feet (183 m) above the…

Average elevation: 567 m

Salisbury

United States > North Carolina > Rowan County

Average elevation: 224 m

Leasburg

United States > North Carolina > Caswell County

Average elevation: 175 m

Asheville

United States > North Carolina > Buncombe County

Asheville features a climate that borders between a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa) and an oceanic climate (Trewartha: Do) with noticeably cooler temperatures than the rest of the Piedmont region of the Southeast due to the higher elevation; it is part of USDA Hardiness zone 7a. The area's summers in…

Average elevation: 727 m

Connor

United States > North Carolina > Connor

Average elevation: 69 m

McDowell County

United States > North Carolina

Archaeological excavations performed by Dr. David Moore, during the early 1980s, revealed the earliest inhabitants of McDowell County to be from the Mississippian and Woodland eras. Dr. Moore discovered evidence in an area close to the Catawba River in and around an unusual topographical site known as Round…

Average elevation: 682 m

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