Des Arc, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Des Arc sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 530–560 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the northeast side
Highest
660 ft 200 m
at the foot of the Finleys Mountains
Average
550 ft 170 m
all land inside village limits
Des Arc spans about 140 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, at the foot of the Finleys Mountains | 660 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Des Arc | 550 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Iron County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 129 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 608 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2826° N, 90.6373° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- Saint Francis River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 63636
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cherokee Pass950 ft
- Arcadia940 ft
- Ironton930 ft
- Centerville770 ft
- Ellington730 ft
- Annapolis670 ft
- Des Arc540 ft
- Piedmont530 ft
- Mill Spring470 ft
- Greenville460 ft
- Williamsville410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri1,161st highest of 1,352
- Towns in Iron Countylowest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Des Arc Mountain1,390 ft
- Rocky Mountain1,270 ft
- Ruble Mountain1,000 ft
- Chlore Mountain990 ft
- Lewis Mountain970 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.