Essex, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
330 ft 100 m320 ft 95 m320 ft 95 m310 ft 95 m300 ft 90 m290 ft 90 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Essex sits at about 300 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
300 ft 90 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the south side
Highest
300 ft 90 m
on the north side
Average
300 ft 90 m
all land inside city limits
Essex is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 300 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 300 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 290 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Essex | 300 ft90 m |
| Airport (DXE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi southwest of the city limits | 304 ft93 m |
| Average of all land | 300 ft90 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Stoddard County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 395 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,367 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.8126° N, 89.8615° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Saint Francis River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dexter Municipal (DXE) 304 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 63846
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Castor Township440 ft
- Bloomfield440 ft
- Dexter380 ft
- Liberty Township370 ft
- Essex300 ft
- Morehouse300 ft
- Richland Township300 ft
- Grayridge300 ft
- Penermon290 ft
- Canalou290 ft
- Elk Township290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri1,303rd highest of 1,352
- Towns in Stoddard County13th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rock Knob540 ft
- Hodge Hill510 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. All public domain.