Picayune, MS Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

190 ft 55 m140 ft 45 m120 ft 35 m76 ft 23 m31 ft 9 m9 ft 3 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Picayune sits at about 57 ft (17 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

57 ft 17 m

most residents: 51–79 ft

Lowest

9 ft 3 m

on the south side

Highest

190 ft 55 m

on the northeast side

Average

64 ft 19 m

all land inside city limits

Picayune spans about 181 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	57 ft17 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side	190 ft55 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side	9 ft3 m
Town center USGS map point for Picayune	62 ft19 m
Airport (MJD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	55 ft17 m
Average of all land	64 ft19 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States
Population: 12,017 2024 est.
Land area: 18.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 666 per sq mi
Coordinates: 30.5255° N, 89.6795° 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 2: 39426 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
Bogalusa, LA99 ft
Sun, LA75 ft
Picayune57 ft
Nicholson48 ft
Diamondhead45 ft
Kiln29 ft
Pearl River, LA27 ft
Slidell, LA10 ft
Pearlington7 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Mississippi402nd highest of 426
Towns in Pearl River County3rd highest of 4

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. All public domain.