Nicholson, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
69 ft 21 m54 ft 16 m46 ft 14 m31 ft 10 m16 ft 5 m9 ft 3 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Nicholson sits at about 48 ft (15 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
48 ft 15 m
most residents: 13–50 ft
Lowest
9 ft 3 m
on the south side
Highest
69 ft 21 m
on the north side
Average
40 ft 12 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Nicholson spans about 60 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 | 48 ft15 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 69 ft21 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 9 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nicholson | 49 ft15 m |
| Airport (MJD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi east of the CDP boundary | 55 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 40 ft12 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 2,833 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 460 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.4771° N, 89.6937° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Pearl River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Picayune Municipal (MJD) 55 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 39466
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rio, LA100 ft
- Hide-A-Way Lake100 ft
- Sun, LA75 ft
- Picayune57 ft
- Nicholson48 ft
- Kiln29 ft
- Pearl River, LA27 ft
- Lacombe, LA15 ft
- Slidell, LA10 ft
- Pearlington7 ft
- Eden Isle, LA6 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi404th highest of 426
- Towns in Pearl River Countylowest of 4
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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.
- Nicholson is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.