Long Beach, MS Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Long Beach, Mississippi, shaded from 1 ft on the west side to 42 ft on the west side
Elevation
42 ft 13 m32 ft 10 m27 ft 8 m16 ft 5 m6 ft 2 m1 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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.
City area
Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Long Beach sits at about 25 ft (8 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
25 ft 8 m
most residents: 15–28 ft
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the west side
Highest
42 ft 13 m
on the west side
Average
22 ft 7 m
all land inside city limits

Long Beach spans about 41 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
25 ft8 m
Highest point
Inside city limits, on the west side
42 ft13 m
Lowest point
Inside city limits, on the west side
1 ft0 m
Town center
USGS map point for Long Beach
26 ft8 m
Airport (GPT)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi northeast of the city limits
28 ft9 m
Average of all land22 ft7 m

Elevation profile, south to north

3.7 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Long Beach, Mississippi, shaded from 1 ft on the west side to 42 ft on the west side
City limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
City in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States
Population
17,217 2024 est.
Land area
10.2 sq mi + 3.7 sq mi water
Density
1,681 per sq mi
Coordinates
30.3505° N, 89.1528° W
Time zone
Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Gulf of America
Airport
Gulfport-Biloxi International (GPT) 28 ft
ZIP codes 1
39560
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Lyman89 ft
  2. Diamondhead45 ft
  3. DeLisle33 ft
  4. Gulfport26 ft
  5. Long Beach25 ft
  6. Biloxi22 ft
  7. D'Iberville22 ft
  8. Bay St. Louis17 ft
  9. Waveland15 ft
  10. Pass Christian9 ft
  11. Henderson Point7 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Camp Hill160 ft
  • Great Sand Hill13 ft
  • Table Hill (historical)0 ft
How we measure
  • Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
  • Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
  • Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −2 ft at 30.3446° N, 89.1446° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
  • Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
  • 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.