Blue Mountain, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m510 ft 155 m450 ft 140 m420 ft 130 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
Blue Mountain sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 450–550 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the northeast side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the northwest side
Average
480 ft 150 m
all land inside town limits
Blue Mountain spans about 220 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Blue Mountain | 450 ft135 m |
| Airport (25M) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi north of the town limits | 467 ft142 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Tippah County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 897 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 546 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.6709° N, 89.0265° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tippah River → Little Tallahatchie River → Yazoo River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Ripley (25M) 467 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38610
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ashland620 ft
- Dumas610 ft
- Ripley500 ft
- Blue Mountain480 ft
- Falkner480 ft
- Snow Lake Shores470 ft
- Hickory Flat410 ft
- Myrtle400 ft
- New Albany380 ft
- Bethlehem350 ft
- Potts Camp350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi22nd highest of 426
- Towns in Tippah County3rd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob640 ft
- Heipsy Hills610 ft
- Banana Hill600 ft
- Beulah Hill560 ft
- Minter Hill540 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, 420 ft at 34.6807° N, 89.0140° 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.