Perry County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

390 ft 120 m310 ft 95 m260 ft 80 m180 ft 55 m100 ft 30 m59 ft 18 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Perry County averages about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 59 ft on the east side to 390 ft on the west side.

Average elevation

180 ft 55 m

all land inside the county

Highest

390 ft 120 m

on the west side

Lowest

59 ft 18 m

on the east side

Perry County spans about 331 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	180 ft55 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the west side	390 ft120 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side	59 ft18 m

Elevation profile, south to north

36 mi south to north through Richton.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Mississippi, United States
Population: 11,406 2024 est.
Land area: 647.3 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
Density: 18 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

Jones County260 ft
Wayne County250 ft
Forrest County230 ft
Stone County180 ft
Perry County180 ft
Greene County180 ft
George County130 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Mississippi67th highest of 82
Counties in the United States2,807th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Deadman Hill290 ft
Taylor Hill280 ft
Thompson Hill240 ft
Wolf Hill230 ft

All 4 towns in Perry County by typical elevation

Richton170 ft
Runnelstown150 ft
New Augusta110 ft
Beaumont92 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.