Scott County, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,670 ft 815 m2,110 ft 645 m1,830 ft 560 m1,280 ft 390 m720 ft 220 m440 ft 135 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Scott County averages about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 440 ft on the east side to 2,670 ft on Poteau Mountain.
Average elevation
950 ft 290 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,670 ft 815 m
on Poteau Mountain
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the east side
Scott County spans about 2,230 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Poteau Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,670 ft815 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 440 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
25 mi south to north through Waldron.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 9,837 2024 est.
- Land area
- 892.8 sq mi + 5.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ouachita
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Polk County1,190 ft
- Scott County950 ft
- Montgomery County910 ft
- Le Flore County, OK840 ft
- Logan County690 ft
- Sebastian County650 ft
- Yell County630 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Arkansas11th highest of 75
- Counties in the United States1,504th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Poteau Mountain2,670 ft
- North Petit Jean Mountain2,290 ft
- Buck Knob, Scott County2,283 ft
- White Oak Mountain, Scott County2,216 ft
- Shut-In Mountain2,130 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.