Rison, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
280 ft 85 m260 ft 80 m240 ft 75 m220 ft 65 m190 ft 60 m180 ft 55 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
Rison sits at about 240 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
240 ft 75 m
most residents: 210–260 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the southwest side
Highest
280 ft 85 m
near the middle
Average
230 ft 70 m
all land inside city limits
Rison spans about 100 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 | 240 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 280 ft85 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 180 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rison | 270 ft85 m |
| Average of all land | 230 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cleveland County, Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 937 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 286 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9584° N, 92.1901° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Saline River → Ouachita River → Atchafalaya River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 71665
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Thornton310 ft
- Sulphur Springs300 ft
- Fordyce270 ft
- New Edinburg270 ft
- Woodlawn260 ft
- Star City260 ft
- Staves240 ft
- Rison240 ft
- Kingsland220 ft
- Ivan210 ft
- Rye210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arkansas449th highest of 626
- Towns in Cleveland County4th highest of 6
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.