Lafayette County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 190 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m290 ft 90 m250 ft 75 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
Lafayette County averages about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 250 ft on the southwest side to 627 ft on Thacker Mountain.
Average elevation
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the county
Highest
627 ft 191 m
on Thacker Mountain
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the southwest side
Lafayette County spans about 380 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Thacker Mountain (NGS survey height) | 627 ft191 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
27 mi west to east through Oxford.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 59,843 2024 est.
- Land area
- 631.7 sq mi + 47.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 95 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
- Union County410 ft
- Pontotoc County400 ft
- Lafayette County390 ft
- Calhoun County330 ft
- Yalobusha County330 ft
- Tate County300 ft
- Panola County280 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi18th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,487th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Thacker Mountain627 ft
- Rook Hill560 ft
- Liberty Hill550 ft
- Sand Hill, Lafayette County530 ft
- Saddlers Hill520 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.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 620 ft at 34.3643° N, 89.3640° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- 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.