Smith County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m510 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m360 ft 110 m270 ft 80 m220 ft 65 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Smith County averages about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 220 ft on the southeast side to 610 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the county
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
220 ft 65 m
on the southeast side
Smith County spans about 390 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 220 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
20 mi west to east through Taylorsville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 14,051 2024 est.
- Land area
- 636.3 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Scott County420 ft
- Smith County390 ft
- Simpson County380 ft
- Jasper County380 ft
- Rankin County360 ft
- Covington County340 ft
- Jones County260 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi19th highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,491st highest of 3,151
All 5 towns in Smith County by typical elevation
- Raleigh430 ft
- Polkville420 ft
- Sylvarena350 ft
- Mize320 ft
- Taylorsville280 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.