Calhoun County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m510 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m360 ft 110 m260 ft 80 m210 ft 65 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
Calhoun County averages about 330 ft (100 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 210 ft on the southwest side to 610 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
330 ft 100 m
all land inside the county
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the north side
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the southwest side
Calhoun County spans about 400 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 | 330 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 210 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
30 mi south to north through Bruce.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 12,754 2024 est.
- Land area
- 586.6 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Webster County410 ft
- Pontotoc County400 ft
- Lafayette County390 ft
- Chickasaw County330 ft
- Calhoun County330 ft
- Yalobusha County330 ft
- Grenada County250 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi35th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,580th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Johnny Main Mountain540 ft
- Sandy Mountain490 ft
- Bald Hill, Calhoun County330 ft
All 7 towns in Calhoun County by typical elevation
- Pittsboro350 ft
- Slate Springs330 ft
- Vardaman300 ft
- Bruce290 ft
- Derma280 ft
- Calhoun City270 ft
- Big Creek260 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.
- 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, 210 ft at 33.8193° N, 89.5040° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.