Alton, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m850 ft 260 m830 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Alton sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 770–830 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the east side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the west side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
Alton spans about 190 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alton | 780 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Oregon County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 702 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 447 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6942° N, 91.3993° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- Eleven Point River → Black River → White River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 65606
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Montier1,060 ft
- Birch Tree1,020 ft
- Koshkonong970 ft
- Brandsville960 ft
- Winona950 ft
- Alton800 ft
- Thomasville640 ft
- Thayer630 ft
- Fremont630 ft
- Mammoth Spring, AR600 ft
- Warm Springs, AR480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri779th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Oregon County2nd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mosby Hill980 ft
- Wild Cat Hill930 ft
- Conner Hill790 ft
- Tater Hill, Oregon County780 ft
- Turkey Knob, Oregon County770 ft
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.