Fayetteville, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,820 ft 555 m1,640 ft 500 m1,540 ft 470 m1,360 ft 415 m1,180 ft 360 m1,080 ft 330 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fayetteville sits at about 1,270 ft (385 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,270 ft 385 m
most residents: 1,220–1,450 ft
Lowest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the west side
Highest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,290 ft 395 m
all land inside city limits
Fayetteville spans about 740 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 | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fayetteville | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Airport (FYV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,252 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 1,290 ft395 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
13 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Washington County, Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 103,134 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.8 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,882 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0626° N, 94.1574° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- White River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Drake Field (FYV) 1,252 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 72701 72703 72704 72730 72764
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Fork1,350 ft
- Greenland1,340 ft
- Springdale1,330 ft
- Tontitown1,290 ft
- Fayetteville1,270 ft
- Elm Springs1,260 ft
- Johnson1,240 ft
- Goshen1,210 ft
- Farmington1,210 ft
- Elkins1,210 ft
- Prairie Grove1,170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arkansas38th highest of 626
- Towns in Washington County8th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Sequoyah1,720 ft
- Pierce Mountain1,690 ft
- Archias Mountain1,530 ft
- Millsap Mountain1,520 ft
- Goat Hill1,410 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.