Shannon, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
300 ft 90 m280 ft 85 m270 ft 85 m250 ft 75 m230 ft 70 m220 ft 70 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
Shannon sits at about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
260 ft 80 m
most residents: 250–280 ft
Lowest
220 ft 70 m
on the east side
Highest
300 ft 90 m
on the east side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside town limits
Shannon spans about 80 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 | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 300 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 220 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shannon | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (TUP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.7 mi north of the town limits | 347 ft106 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Lee County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 1,491 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 368 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1162° N, 88.7117° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tupelo Regional (TUP) 347 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38868
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mooreville370 ft
- Sherman360 ft
- Van Vleet350 ft
- Saltillo330 ft
- Okolona320 ft
- Tupelo310 ft
- Verona310 ft
- Plantersville270 ft
- Shannon260 ft
- Nettleton250 ft
- Amory240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi224th highest of 426
- Towns in Lee Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dozier Hill520 ft
- Colberts Hill340 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).
- 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.