DeSoto County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
440 ft 135 m370 ft 115 m340 ft 100 m270 ft 80 m200 ft 60 m160 ft 50 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
DeSoto County averages about 290 ft (90 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 160 ft on the west side to 440 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
290 ft 90 m
all land inside the county
Highest
440 ft 135 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the west side
DeSoto County spans about 280 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 | 290 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
33 mi west to east through Southaven.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 195,871 2024 est.
- Land area
- 476.4 sq mi + 19.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 411 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
- Marshall County430 ft
- Tate County300 ft
- DeSoto County290 ft
- Shelby County, TN290 ft
- Crittenden County, AR210 ft
- Tunica County180 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi44th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,629th highest of 3,151
All 9 towns in DeSoto County by typical elevation
- Olive Branch380 ft
- Bridgetown370 ft
- Hernando340 ft
- Southaven340 ft
- Lynchburg300 ft
- Horn Lake290 ft
- Eudora280 ft
- Lakeview250 ft
- Walls210 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.
- 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.