Houston, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
420 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m360 ft 110 m330 ft 100 m290 ft 90 m270 ft 85 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Houston sits at about 310 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
310 ft 95 m
most residents: 280–390 ft
Lowest
270 ft 85 m
on the southeast side
Highest
420 ft 130 m
on the southwest side
Average
320 ft 100 m
all land inside town limits
Houston spans about 150 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 | 310 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 420 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 270 ft85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Houston | 310 ft95 m |
| Airport (BDQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi north of the town limits | 321 ft98 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Perry County, Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 149 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 147 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0334° N, 92.6946° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ouachita
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Morrilton Municipal (BDQ) 321 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 72070
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Adona370 ft
- Morrilton360 ft
- Perry350 ft
- Oppelo320 ft
- Plumerville320 ft
- Perryville310 ft
- Houston310 ft
- Fourche310 ft
- Bigelow300 ft
- Menifee300 ft
- Roland290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arkansas341st highest of 626
- Towns in Perry County6th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Signal Hill2,720 ft
- Petit Jean Mountain2,440 ft
- Potato Hill Mountain2,220 ft
- Spring Mountain1,830 ft
- Perry Mountain730 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.