Yell County, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,440 ft 745 m1,900 ft 580 m1,630 ft 495 m1,090 ft 335 m550 ft 170 m280 ft 85 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
Yell County averages about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 280 ft on the northeast side to 2,440 ft on Petit Jean Mountain.
Average elevation
630 ft 190 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,440 ft 744 m
on Petit Jean Mountain
Lowest
280 ft 85 m
on the northeast side
Yell County spans about 2,160 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Petit Jean Mountain (NGS survey height) | 2,440 ft744 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.4 mi west to east through Dardanelle.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 20,134 2024 est.
- Land area
- 930.4 sq mi + 18.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 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
- Scott County950 ft
- Montgomery County910 ft
- Pope County850 ft
- Garland County700 ft
- Logan County690 ft
- Yell County630 ft
- Perry County600 ft
- Conway County500 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Arkansas25th highest of 75
- Counties in the United States2,164th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Petit Jean Mountain2,440 ft
- Flood Mountain2,240 ft
- Potato Hill Mountain2,220 ft
- Mount Nebo1,770 ft
- Sunset Point1,740 ft
All 9 towns in Yell County by typical elevation
- Rover420 ft
- Plainview410 ft
- Havana370 ft
- Ola370 ft
- Belleville370 ft
- Centerville350 ft
- Corinth350 ft
- Danville340 ft
- Dardanelle330 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.