Shirley, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 225 m640 ft 195 m550 ft 170 m500 ft 155 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shirley sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 560–690 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the south side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside town limits
Shirley spans about 370 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shirley | 550 ft165 m |
| Airport (2A2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi west of the town limits | 1,270 ft387 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 246 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 102 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6562° N, 92.3193° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- Little Red River → White River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Holley Mountain Airpark (2A2) 1,270 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 72153
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dennard1,390 ft
- Fox1,350 ft
- Leslie1,000 ft
- Fairfield Bay920 ft
- Bee Branch810 ft
- Mountain View740 ft
- Shirley660 ft
- Clinton570 ft
- Greers Ferry540 ft
- Edgemont520 ft
- Higden510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Arkansas145th highest of 626
- Towns in Van Buren County5th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dodd Mountain, Van Buren County1,360 ft
- Simkins Point1,280 ft
- John Henry Mountain1,270 ft
- Bud Brown Hill1,190 ft
- Banner Mountain1,050 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 500 ft at 35.6460° N, 92.3057° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.