Shelby, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
170 ft 55 m160 ft 50 m160 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m140 ft 45 m140 ft 45 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
Shelby sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the north side
Highest
160 ft 50 m
on the northeast side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside city limits
Shelby is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 160 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shelby | 160 ft45 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 1,800 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 659 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9509° N, 90.7679° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Big Sunflower River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 38774
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bobo160 ft
- Duncan160 ft
- Alligator160 ft
- Gunnison150 ft
- Shelby150 ft
- Winstonville150 ft
- Mound Bayou140 ft
- Symonds140 ft
- Merigold140 ft
- Pace140 ft
- Renova140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi328th highest of 426
- Towns in Bolivar County4th highest of 19
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.