City of Salem, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,090 ft 335 m970 ft 295 m910 ft 280 m790 ft 240 m670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 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
City of Salem sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 670–790 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,090 ft 330 m
on Salem Knob
Average
730 ft 220 m
all land inside city limits
City of Salem spans about 480 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Salem Knob | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for City of Salem | 660 ft205 m |
| Airport (7M9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi southwest of the city limits | 787 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fulton County, Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 1,626 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 674 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.3712° N, 91.8226° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- South Fork Spring River → Spring River → Black River → White River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Salem (7M9) 787 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 72576
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Koshkonong, MO970 ft
- Viola870 ft
- Oxford790 ft
- Violet Hill770 ft
- Horseshoe Bend730 ft
- City of Salem710 ft
- Franklin680 ft
- Highland670 ft
- Ash Flat650 ft
- Mammoth Spring600 ft
- Cherokee Village540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arkansas126th highest of 626
- Towns in Fulton County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wallace Knob, Fulton County1,140 ft
- Salem Knob1,090 ft
- Wildcat Knob1,070 ft
- Pine Hill, Fulton County1,020 ft
- Turkey Knob, Fulton County930 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.