Butler County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

760 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m580 ft 180 m460 ft 140 m350 ft 105 m290 ft 90 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Butler County averages about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 290 ft on the southeast side to 760 ft on Pinhook Hill.

Average elevation

380 ft 115 m

all land inside the county

Highest

760 ft 230 m

on Pinhook Hill

Lowest

290 ft 90 m

on the southeast side

Butler County spans about 470 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	380 ft115 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Pinhook Hill	760 ft230 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	290 ft90 m

Elevation profile, south to north

30 mi south to north through Poplar Bluff.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Missouri, United States
Population: 41,814 2024 est.
Land area: 694.8 sq mi + 4.3 sq mi water
Density: 60 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform regions: Coastal Plain 71%, Ozark Plateaus 29%
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Carter County730 ft
Wayne County580 ft
Ripley County520 ft
Butler County380 ft
Stoddard County340 ft
Clay County, AR300 ft
Dunklin County270 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Missouri108th highest of 114
Counties in the United States2,513th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Pinhook Hill760 ft

All 7 towns in Butler County by typical elevation

Fairdealing partly440 ft
Poplar Bluff380 ft
Fisk330 ft
Broseley320 ft
Harviell320 ft
Qulin320 ft
Neelyville300 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.
Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 770 ft at 36.9199° N, 90.6732° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
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, 200 ft at 36.8999° N, 90.4804° 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.