West Hattiesburg, MS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
370 ft 110 m330 ft 100 m310 ft 95 m270 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m210 ft 65 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
West Hattiesburg 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: 240–310 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the east side
Highest
370 ft 110 m
on the west side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
West Hattiesburg spans about 160 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 the CDP boundary, on the west side | 370 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Hattiesburg | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (PIB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10.0 mi north of the CDP boundary | 298 ft91 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lamar County, Mississippi, United States
- Population
- 6,006 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,489 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.3191° N, 89.3751° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Leaf River → Pascagoula River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Hattiesburg/Laurel Regional (PIB) 298 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 39402
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oak Grove380 ft
- Purvis370 ft
- Sumrall290 ft
- West Hattiesburg260 ft
- Moselle220 ft
- Arnold Line220 ft
- Hattiesburg200 ft
- Petal200 ft
- Rawls Springs190 ft
- Eastabuchie180 ft
- Glendale170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mississippi226th highest of 426
- Towns in Lamar County6th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Red Hill (historical)400 ft
- Lee Hill370 ft
- Anderson Hill360 ft
- Sheep Stomp Hill360 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).
- 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.
- West Hattiesburg 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. All public domain.