Dallas County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,220 ft 370 m1,140 ft 345 m970 ft 295 m800 ft 245 m720 ft 220 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
Dallas County averages about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 720 ft on the northeast side to 1,390 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northeast side
Dallas County spans about 670 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
34 mi south to north through Buffalo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 17,877 2024 est.
- Land area
- 541.0 sq mi + 1.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 33 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
- Webster County1,430 ft
- Greene County1,230 ft
- Laclede County1,150 ft
- Dallas County1,100 ft
- Polk County1,050 ft
- Hickory County950 ft
- Camden County890 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri14th highest of 114
- Counties in the United States1,239th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Brushy Mound, Dallas County1,320 ft
All 4 towns in Dallas County by typical elevation
- Louisburg1,170 ft
- Buffalo1,160 ft
- Urbana1,040 ft
- Bennett Springs partly1,020 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.