Monroe County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m480 ft 145 m420 ft 130 m320 ft 95 m210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 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
Monroe County averages about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 160 ft on the south side to 580 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the county
Highest
580 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the south side
Monroe County spans about 420 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 | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
29 mi west to east through Amory.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 33,483 2024 est.
- Land area
- 765.1 sq mi + 6.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 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
- Marion County, AL640 ft
- Lamar County, AL390 ft
- Itawamba County380 ft
- Chickasaw County330 ft
- Lee County330 ft
- Monroe County280 ft
- Clay County250 ft
- Lowndes County220 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi46th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,645th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Colberts Hill340 ft
All 8 towns in Monroe County by typical elevation
- Hatley360 ft
- Gattman290 ft
- Smithville260 ft
- Hamilton260 ft
- Nettleton250 ft
- Amory240 ft
- Aberdeen230 ft
- New Hamilton220 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.