Helena-West Helena, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m330 ft 100 m300 ft 90 m240 ft 70 m170 ft 55 m140 ft 45 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
Helena-West Helena sits at about 250 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
250 ft 75 m
most residents: 200–310 ft
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
near the middle
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside city limits
Helena-West Helena spans about 250 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 | 250 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Helena-West Helena | 190 ft60 m |
| Airport (HEE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi northwest of the city limits | 242 ft74 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 8,462 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.1 sq mi
- Density
- 645 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.5291° N, 90.5900° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- White River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Thompson-Robbins (HEE) 242 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 72342 72390
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Helena-West Helena250 ft
- LaGrange210 ft
- Lexa210 ft
- Austin, MS190 ft
- Poplar Grove180 ft
- Lula, MS180 ft
- Dundee, MS180 ft
- Coahoma, MS180 ft
- Friars Point, MS180 ft
- Lake View170 ft
- Oneida170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arkansas428th highest of 626
- Towns in Phillips Countyhighest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Robinson Hill360 ft
- Morrells Hill340 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.