Easy NC LiDARSee North Carolina Without the Trees

Data & sources

Know the landscape. Know the source.

The explorer keeps acquisition dates separate from publication labels, attributes official sources, and exposes the details needed to interpret the map responsibly.

Two layers. One landscape.

Aerial detail of fields and forest at Mountain Creek.NC OneMap · Natural colorAerial imagery What was visible from above.Shaded bare-earth ridges and stream valleys at Mountain Creek.NC Emergency Management · LiDARBare-earth terrain The measured shape underneath.

Mountain Creek, Catawba County
Aerial 2022 · LiDAR collected 2016–2017

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Aerial imagery

Six-inch natural-color orthoimagery from the NC OneMap Orthoimagery Program.

Local acquisition
Resolved from the catalog item at the current map center; the Catawba proof location is February 9, 2022.
Attribution
NC OneMap · NCCGIA · NC 911 Board
Use
General reference and visual exploration; imagery remains service-backed.
Official imagery metadata

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Bare-earth terrain

A 3.125-foot ground model from North Carolina Emergency Management / NC OneMap.

LiDAR collected
February 27, 2016–February 21, 2017
Delivery label
Catawba 2025 QL1 — a delivery label, not the collection year
Elevation reference
NAVD88 (GEOID12B), US survey feet
Current coverage
Catawba County, North Carolina · 410.196 square miles
County DEM archive · ZIP, about 4.66 GB

Accuracy & disclaimer

Explore—do not certify.

The map is free for education, research, and exploration. Elevations are samples from a published ground model and can be affected by source accuracy, interpolation, surface change, NoData areas, and horizontal position.

Source specification: 3.125-foot cells, US survey feet, and NAVD88/GEOID12B describe spacing, units, and reference datum. They do not establish positional or elevation accuracy. Independent validation has not established survey-grade accuracy.

Do not use this viewer as a substitute for professional surveying, legal property-boundary determination, engineering, construction, certified elevation measurements, or safety-critical navigation. Consult the responsible agency and qualified professionals for decisions requiring certified data.

The county download is a raw DEM ZIP of about 4.66 GB (4,662,220,327 bytes), intended for GIS software. Allow storage for both the ZIP and extracted data. Downloading it is not needed to use this map.