Polkville, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m490 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m420 ft 130 m370 ft 115 m350 ft 105 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Polkville sits at about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 130 m
most residents: 380–450 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the southwest side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the north side
Average
410 ft 125 m
all land inside town limits
Polkville spans about 190 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 | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Polkville | 510 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 410 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Smith County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 588 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.2 sq mi
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.1938° N, 89.6926° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Strong River → 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
- Raleigh430 ft
- Polkville420 ft
- Robinhood390 ft
- Brandon380 ft
- Pelahatchie370 ft
- Braxton360 ft
- Puckett350 ft
- Mendenhall340 ft
- D'Lo300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi67th highest of 426
- Towns in Smith County2nd highest of 5
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 town 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 town 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, 350 ft at 32.1593° N, 89.7129° 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.