Carter County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,100 ft 335 m980 ft 300 m740 ft 225 m500 ft 155 m380 ft 115 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
Carter County averages about 730 ft (220 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 380 ft on the south side to 1,350 ft on Stegall Mountain.
Average elevation
730 ft 220 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on Stegall Mountain
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the south side
Carter County spans about 970 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 | 730 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Stegall Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 380 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
19 mi south to north through Van Buren.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 5,359 2024 est.
- Land area
- 507.3 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Shannon County980 ft
- Reynolds County950 ft
- Oregon County770 ft
- Carter County730 ft
- Wayne County580 ft
- Ripley County520 ft
- Butler County380 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri85th highest of 114
- Counties in the United States1,977th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Stegall Mountain1,350 ft
- Little Thorny Mountain1,060 ft
- Green Mountain, Carter County910 ft
- Windes Hill900 ft
- Retort Hill830 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.