Oxford, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m520 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m410 ft 125 m340 ft 100 m300 ft 90 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Oxford sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 370–500 ft
Lowest
300 ft 90 m
on the northwest side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside city limits
Oxford spans about 290 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 300 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oxford | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (UOX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 452 ft138 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 26,801 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,007 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.3665° N, 89.5192° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Yocona River → Yazoo River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- University-Oxford (UOX) 452 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 38655 38677
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- University500 ft
- Oxford430 ft
- Waterford430 ft
- Thaxton400 ft
- Tula390 ft
- Abbeville390 ft
- Toccopola390 ft
- Paris380 ft
- Bethlehem350 ft
- Water Valley340 ft
- Taylor310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi60th highest of 426
- Towns in Lafayette County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Thacker Mountain627 ft
- Lowe Mountain580 ft
- Sand Hill, Lafayette County530 ft
- Saddlers Hill520 ft
- Carter Mountain460 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.