Ethel, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m810 ft 250 m780 ft 240 m770 ft 235 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ethel sits at about 830 ft (250 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
830 ft 250 m
few residents
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the southeast side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the west side
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside town limits
Ethel spans about 120 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 830 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ethel | 840 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Macon County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 47 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 203 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8948° N, 92.7380° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Chariton River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 63539
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Winigan980 ft
- Bucklin910 ft
- Bucklin Township900 ft
- Atlanta900 ft
- Baker Township890 ft
- New Cambria840 ft
- Ethel830 ft
- Callao820 ft
- Bevier810 ft
- South Gifford760 ft
- Elmer740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri714th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Macon County6th highest of 10
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town 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.