Hinds County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m390 ft 120 m340 ft 105 m240 ft 75 m140 ft 40 m88 ft 27 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
Hinds County averages about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 88 ft on the west side to 490 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the county
Highest
490 ft 150 m
on the south side
Lowest
88 ft 27 m
on the west side
Hinds County spans about 402 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 | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 88 ft27 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
32 mi west to east through Jackson.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 211,975 2024 est.
- Land area
- 869.8 sq mi + 7.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 244 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
- Rankin County360 ft
- Copiah County340 ft
- Madison County280 ft
- Hinds County260 ft
- Yazoo County190 ft
- Claiborne County180 ft
- Warren County160 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi49th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,683rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bailey Hill370 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.