Alcorn State University, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
290 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m230 ft 70 m190 ft 60 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Alcorn State University sits at about 250 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
250 ft 75 m
most residents: 250–260 ft
Lowest
140 ft 40 m
on the north side
Highest
290 ft 90 m
on the east side
Average
240 ft 75 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Alcorn State University spans about 150 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 | 250 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 290 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 140 ft40 m |
| Airport (L33) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 74 ft23 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the middle of Alcorn State University.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 1,120 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 471 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.8723° N, 91.1367° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tensas Parish (L33) 74 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 39096
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fayette270 ft
- Alcorn State University250 ft
- Roxie230 ft
- Hermanville220 ft
- Pattison180 ft
- Morgantown170 ft
- Port Gibson120 ft
- Newellton, LA79 ft
- St. Joseph, LA70 ft
- Waterproof, LA66 ft
- Spokane, LA61 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi238th highest of 426
- Towns in Claiborne Countyhighest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Hill, Jefferson County470 ft
- Petit Gulf Hills280 ft
- Lookout Point260 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Alcorn State University is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.