University, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
University sits at about 500 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 150 m
most residents: 440–520 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the west side
Highest
550 ft 170 m
on the west side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
University 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 | 500 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 550 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (UOX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi north of the CDP boundary | 452 ft138 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the middle of University.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 4,696 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 6,670 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.3680° N, 89.5382° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Little Tallahatchie River → Yazoo River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- University-Oxford (UOX) 452 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38677
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi20th highest of 426
- Towns in Lafayette Countyhighest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Thacker Mountain627 ft
- Lowe Mountain580 ft
- Sand Hill, Lafayette County530 ft
- Saddlers Hill520 ft
- Carter Mountain460 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 410 ft at 34.3718° N, 89.5362° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- University is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.