Cole County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m710 ft 220 m590 ft 180 m530 ft 160 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
Cole County averages about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 530 ft on the east side to 1,030 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
690 ft 210 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the east side
Cole County spans about 500 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
14 mi south to north through Jefferson City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 77,625 2024 est.
- Land area
- 391.6 sq mi + 7.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 198 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
- Moniteau County800 ft
- Miller County790 ft
- Boone County770 ft
- Callaway County760 ft
- Osage County720 ft
- Cole County690 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri91st highest of 114
- Counties in the United States2,041st highest of 3,151
All 9 towns in Cole County by typical elevation
- Russellville860 ft
- Eugene840 ft
- Centertown820 ft
- Taos760 ft
- St. Martins740 ft
- Lohman700 ft
- St. Thomas690 ft
- Wardsville670 ft
- Jefferson City650 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.
- 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.