Clay County, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m350 ft 110 m280 ft 85 m250 ft 75 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Clay County averages about 300 ft (90 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 250 ft on the southeast side to 540 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
300 ft 90 m
all land inside the county
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the southeast side
Clay County spans about 290 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 | 300 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through Piggott.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 14,112 2024 est.
- Land area
- 639.2 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Ripley County, MO520 ft
- Randolph County400 ft
- Butler County, MO380 ft
- Greene County310 ft
- Clay County300 ft
- Dunklin County, MO270 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Arkansas43rd highest of 75
- Counties in the United States2,621st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bunker Hill, Clay County290 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 240 ft at 36.2018° N, 90.2874° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties 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 county 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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.