Arkansas Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,750 ft 840 m2,080 ft 635 m1,740 ft 530 m1,060 ft 325 m390 ft 120 m53 ft 16 m
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USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- State area
- Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Arkansas averages about 530 ft (165 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 53 ft on the south side to 2,750 ft on Signal Hill.
Average elevation
530 ft 165 m
all land in Arkansas
Highest
2,750 ft 840 m
on Signal Hill
Lowest
53 ft 16 m
on the south side
Arkansas spans about 2,697 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 530 ft165 m |
| Highest point In Arkansas, on Signal Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,750 ft840 m |
| Lowest point In Arkansas, on the south side | 53 ft16 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
241 mi south to north through Little Rock.
Topographic Map
- Location
- State in the West South Central division of the South region, United States
- Population
- 3,088,354 2024 est.
- Land area
- 51,992.1 sq mi + 1,205.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 59 per sq mi
- Counties
- 75
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Coastal Plain 52%, Ouachita 25%, Ozark Plateaus 23%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring states sharing a border, by average
Rankings by average elevation
- States in the United States40th highest of 52
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Signal Hill2,720 ft
- Poteau Mountain2,670 ft
- Blue Mountain2,628 ft
- Petit Jean Mountain2,440 ft
- Raspberry Mountain2,350 ft
All 75 counties by average elevation
- Madison County1,660 ft
- Newton County1,580 ft
- Washington County1,410 ft
- Carroll County1,350 ft
- Benton County1,240 ft
- Boone County1,200 ft
- Polk County1,190 ft
- Searcy County1,170 ft
- Johnson County1,040 ft
- Van Buren County1,010 ft
- Scott County950 ft
- Crawford County930 ft
- Stone County910 ft
- Montgomery County910 ft
- Marion County890 ft
- Pope County850 ft
- Franklin County840 ft
- Baxter County770 ft
- Cleburne County750 ft
- Fulton County740 ft
- Garland County700 ft
- Logan County690 ft
- Izard County660 ft
- Sebastian County650 ft
- Yell County630 ft
- Perry County600 ft
- Pike County590 ft
- Howard County580 ft
- Sharp County560 ft
- Saline County530 ft
- Conway County500 ft
- Independence County450 ft
- Hot Spring County440 ft
- Sevier County430 ft
- Faulkner County410 ft
- Randolph County400 ft
- Hempstead County340 ft
- Pulaski County340 ft
- White County340 ft
- Little River County320 ft
- Lawrence County310 ft
- Greene County310 ft
- Clay County300 ft
- Clark County300 ft
- Nevada County290 ft
- Columbia County270 ft
- Dallas County270 ft
- Miller County260 ft
- Grant County260 ft
- Craighead County260 ft
- Jackson County260 ft
- Lafayette County250 ft
- Cross County240 ft
- Mississippi County240 ft
- Lonoke County230 ft
- Poinsett County230 ft
- Jefferson County220 ft
- St. Francis County220 ft
- Crittenden County210 ft
- Prairie County210 ft
- Lincoln County200 ft
- Cleveland County200 ft
- Woodruff County200 ft
- Lee County200 ft
- Ouachita County180 ft
- Arkansas County180 ft
- Drew County180 ft
- Union County180 ft
- Phillips County180 ft
- Monroe County180 ft
- Calhoun County170 ft
- Bradley County160 ft
- Desha County150 ft
- Ashley County130 ft
- Chicot County120 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 6 arc-second (≈610 ft, 185 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring states and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the state with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.