Lamar County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m380 ft 115 m340 ft 105 m270 ft 80 m190 ft 60 m160 ft 45 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
Lamar County averages about 320 ft (95 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 160 ft on the northeast side to 460 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
320 ft 95 m
all land inside the county
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
160 ft 45 m
on the northeast side
Lamar County spans about 300 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 | 320 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 160 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
18 mi west to east through West Hattiesburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 66,734 2024 est.
- Land area
- 496.6 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 134 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
- Jefferson Davis County380 ft
- Covington County340 ft
- Lamar County320 ft
- Marion County260 ft
- Forrest County230 ft
- Pearl River County180 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi39th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,595th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Red Hill (historical)400 ft
- Lee Hill370 ft
- Anderson Hill360 ft
- Sheep Stomp Hill360 ft
- Black Creek Hill350 ft
All 8 towns in Lamar County by typical elevation
- Oak Grove380 ft
- Baxterville380 ft
- Purvis370 ft
- Sumrall290 ft
- Lumberton280 ft
- West Hattiesburg260 ft
- Arnold Line220 ft
- Hattiesburg partly200 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.