Festus, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 200 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m420 ft 130 m390 ft 120 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
Festus sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 440–540 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Highest
660 ft 200 m
on the northwest side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Festus spans about 270 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 660 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Festus | 430 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 13,730 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.0 sq mi
- Density
- 2,297 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2206° N, 90.3960° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 63028
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hillsboro770 ft
- Valmeyer, IL700 ft
- Olympian Village630 ft
- Barnhart520 ft
- Pevely510 ft
- Maeystown, IL500 ft
- Horine490 ft
- Festus480 ft
- Herculaneum450 ft
- Crystal City440 ft
- Kimmswick410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri1,220th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Jefferson County22nd highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Vinegar Hill1,060 ft
- Frisco Hill870 ft
- Buck Knob, Jefferson County850 ft
- Pikes Peak730 ft
- Jawbone650 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.