Des Peres, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 m580 ft 175 m520 ft 160 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Des Peres sits at about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
570 ft 175 m
most residents: 510–630 ft
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the southwest side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the west side
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside city limits
Des Peres spans about 240 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 | 570 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Des Peres | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (STL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.5 mi north of the city limits | 617 ft188 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 9,171 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.3 sq mi
- Density
- 2,123 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6009° N, 90.4329° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- St Louis Lambert International (STL) 617 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 63122 63131
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Country Life Acres660 ft
- Kirkwood630 ft
- Westwood610 ft
- Frontenac610 ft
- Glendale600 ft
- Town and Country600 ft
- Huntleigh590 ft
- Crystal Lake Park580 ft
- Warson Woods580 ft
- Des Peres570 ft
- Rock Hill510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri1,126th highest of 1,352
- Towns in St. Louis County47th highest of 97
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tavern Rock893 ft
- Frisco Hill870 ft
- Bald Hill, St. Louis County670 ft
- Lost Hill, St. Louis County610 ft
- Big Mound (historical)500 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.