Van Buren County, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,010 ft 610 m1,600 ft 490 m1,400 ft 425 m990 ft 305 m590 ft 180 m390 ft 120 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
Van Buren County averages about 1,010 ft (305 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 390 ft on the south side to 2,010 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,010 ft 305 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,010 ft 610 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the south side
Van Buren County spans about 1,620 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 | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,010 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
32 mi west to east through Clinton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 16,152 2024 est.
- Land area
- 709.6 sq mi + 14.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 23 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Ozark Plateaus 51%, Ouachita 49%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Searcy County1,170 ft
- Van Buren County1,010 ft
- Stone County910 ft
- Pope County850 ft
- Cleburne County750 ft
- Conway County500 ft
- Faulkner County410 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Arkansas10th highest of 75
- Counties in the United States1,386th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Armstead Mountain1,840 ft
- Red Hill, Van Buren County1,830 ft
- Snowlick Mountain1,820 ft
- Pine Mountain, Van Buren County1,810 ft
- Hatley Mountain1,810 ft
All 6 towns in Van Buren County by typical elevation
- Dennard1,390 ft
- Fairfield Bay920 ft
- Bee Branch810 ft
- Damascus690 ft
- Shirley660 ft
- Clinton570 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. 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.