Desha, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
380 ft 115 m350 ft 105 m330 ft 100 m300 ft 90 m270 ft 80 m250 ft 75 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Desha sits at about 320 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
320 ft 100 m
most residents: 300–360 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the west side
Highest
380 ft 115 m
on the southeast side
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Desha spans about 130 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 320 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 380 ft115 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Desha | 320 ft100 m |
| Airport (BVX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi east of the CDP boundary | 465 ft142 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Independence County, Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 715 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Density
- 316 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7362° N, 91.6799° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- White River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Batesville Regional (BVX) 465 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 72501 72527
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Concord980 ft
- Floral780 ft
- Cushman750 ft
- Bethesda610 ft
- Salado450 ft
- Southside430 ft
- Moorefield390 ft
- Batesville360 ft
- Sulphur Rock330 ft
- Desha320 ft
- Magness270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arkansas323rd highest of 626
- Towns in Independence County10th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dean Mountain, Independence County890 ft
- Cobb Mountain880 ft
- Ramsey Hill540 ft
- Ruddell Hill530 ft
- Slate Hill, Independence County510 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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.
- Desha is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.