Columbus, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
320 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m250 ft 75 m210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Columbus sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 170–220 ft
Lowest
140 ft 40 m
on the west side
Highest
320 ft 100 m
on the northeast side
Average
190 ft 55 m
all land inside city limits
Columbus spans about 180 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 | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 320 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 140 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbus | 220 ft65 m |
| Airport (GTR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.4 mi west of the city limits | 264 ft80 m |
| Average of all land | 190 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 22,820 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.0 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 912 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.4957° N, 88.4273° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Golden Triangle Regional (GTR) 264 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 39701 39702 39705
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ethelsville, AL360 ft
- Macedonia, AL320 ft
- Crawford310 ft
- Caledonia310 ft
- Hamilton260 ft
- New Hope260 ft
- Artesia240 ft
- West Point230 ft
- New Hamilton220 ft
- Columbus AFB200 ft
- Columbus180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi295th highest of 426
- Towns in Lowndes Countylowest of 6
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (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.
- 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.