Morton, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 195 m570 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m470 ft 140 m400 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Morton sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 440–490 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the southwest side
Highest
630 ft 195 m
on the south side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside city limits
Morton spans about 270 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 630 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Morton | 470 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Scott County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 3,641 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.9 sq mi
- Density
- 410 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.3538° N, 89.6545° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Pelahatchie Creek → Pearl River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 39117
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morton470 ft
- Forest460 ft
- Lake450 ft
- Harperville430 ft
- Hillsboro430 ft
- Polkville420 ft
- Lena380 ft
- Brandon380 ft
- Walnut Grove370 ft
- Pelahatchie370 ft
- Puckett350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi31st highest of 426
- Towns in Scott Countyhighest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mathes Hill580 ft
- Harrell Prairie Hill570 ft
- Indian Mound Hill560 ft
- Ware Hill520 ft
- Spencer Hill510 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, 360 ft at 32.3271° N, 89.7288° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.