Richton, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
270 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m220 ft 65 m180 ft 55 m150 ft 45 m130 ft 40 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
Richton sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 50 m
most residents: 160–220 ft
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the southeast side
Highest
270 ft 80 m
on the west side
Average
180 ft 55 m
all land inside town limits
Richton spans about 140 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 | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 270 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 130 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Richton | 170 ft55 m |
| Airport (M59) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi south of the town limits | 167 ft51 m |
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Perry County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 936 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Density
- 408 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.3493° N, 88.9400° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Leaf River → Pascagoula River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Richton-Perry County (M59) 167 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 39476
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clara220 ft
- Ovett210 ft
- Hattiesburg200 ft
- Petal200 ft
- Eastabuchie180 ft
- Glendale170 ft
- Richton170 ft
- Runnelstown150 ft
- New Augusta110 ft
- Beaumont92 ft
- McLain75 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi308th highest of 426
- Towns in Perry Countyhighest of 4
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).
- 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.