Fordyce, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
350 ft 105 m320 ft 95 m300 ft 90 m260 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m210 ft 65 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fordyce sits at about 270 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 85 m
most residents: 250–300 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the northeast side
Highest
350 ft 105 m
on the west side
Average
270 ft 80 m
all land inside city limits
Fordyce spans about 140 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 | 270 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 350 ft105 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fordyce | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (5M4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi northeast of the city limits | 193 ft59 m |
| Average of all land | 270 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dallas County, Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 3,174 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 472 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8137° N, 92.4129° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Moro Creek → Ouachita River → Atchafalaya River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Fordyce Municipal (5M4) 193 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 71742
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arkansas398th highest of 626
- Towns in Dallas County2nd highest of 5
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.