Cooper County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 290 m850 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m710 ft 215 m610 ft 185 m560 ft 170 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
Cooper County averages about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 570 ft on the east side to 940 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
740 ft 225 m
all land inside the county
Highest
940 ft 290 m
on the south side
Lowest
570 ft 170 m
on the east side
Cooper County spans about 370 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 940 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 570 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through Boonville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 17,122 2024 est.
- Land area
- 564.7 sq mi + 4.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Ozark Plateaus 88%, Central Lowland 12%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Morgan County890 ft
- Pettis County830 ft
- Moniteau County800 ft
- Boone County770 ft
- Cooper County740 ft
- Saline County720 ft
- Howard County710 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri81st highest of 114
- Counties in the United States1,934th highest of 3,151
All 8 towns in Cooper County by typical elevation
- Prairie Home880 ft
- Pilot Grove840 ft
- Bunceton810 ft
- Otterville760 ft
- Boonville680 ft
- Windsor Place650 ft
- Blackwater630 ft
- Wooldridge580 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.
- 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, 520 ft at 38.9185° N, 92.7601° 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.