Jefferson County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
530 ft 165 m410 ft 125 m340 ft 105 m220 ft 65 m88 ft 27 m24 ft 7 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
Jefferson County averages about 270 ft (80 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 24 ft on the northwest side to 530 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
270 ft 80 m
all land inside the county
Highest
530 ft 165 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
24 ft 7 m
on the northwest side
Jefferson County spans about 506 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 | 270 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 530 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 24 ft7 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
34 mi west to east through Fayette.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 6,900 2024 est.
- Land area
- 519.9 sq mi + 7.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 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
- Lincoln County430 ft
- Copiah County340 ft
- Franklin County320 ft
- Jefferson County270 ft
- Adams County180 ft
- Claiborne County180 ft
- Tensas Parish, LA68 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi48th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,674th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Blue Hill, Jefferson County470 ft
The one town in Jefferson County
- Fayette270 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.