Pontotoc, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m500 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m350 ft 110 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pontotoc sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 430–490 ft
Lowest
350 ft 110 m
on the northwest side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the east side
Average
440 ft 135 m
all land inside city limits
Pontotoc 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 350 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pontotoc | 500 ft150 m |
| Airport (TUP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi east of the city limits | 347 ft106 m |
| Average of all land | 440 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 6,046 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 466 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.2479° N, 88.9987° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Chiwapa Creek → Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tupelo Regional (TUP) 347 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38863
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Randolph470 ft
- Pontotoc460 ft
- Blue Springs420 ft
- Algoma410 ft
- Thaxton400 ft
- Toccopola390 ft
- Ecru380 ft
- New Houlka370 ft
- Sherman360 ft
- Tupelo310 ft
- Verona310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi38th highest of 426
- Towns in Pontotoc County2nd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grubb Hill650 ft
- Buncombe Hill580 ft
- Luke Hill580 ft
- Dozier Hill520 ft
- Bart Hill430 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).
- 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 34.3074° N, 89.0238° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.