Tippah County, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m680 ft 210 m630 ft 190 m530 ft 160 m420 ft 130 m370 ft 110 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
Tippah County averages about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 370 ft on the west side to 790 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
510 ft 155 m
all land inside the county
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
370 ft 110 m
on the west side
Tippah County spans about 420 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Ripley.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 21,423 2024 est.
- Land area
- 457.8 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 47 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
- Tippah County510 ft
- Benton County500 ft
- Alcorn County490 ft
- Hardeman County, TN460 ft
- Prentiss County430 ft
- Union County410 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Mississippi2nd highest of 82
- Counties in the United States2,307th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wicker Mountain740 ft
- Kitchen Mountain740 ft
- Oil Mill Hill710 ft
- Lindsey Mountain690 ft
- Silver Springs Hill680 ft
All 6 towns in Tippah County by typical elevation
- Dumas610 ft
- Ripley500 ft
- Blue Mountain480 ft
- Falkner480 ft
- Chalybeate470 ft
- Walnut450 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.
- 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, 360 ft at 34.7365° N, 89.0874° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.