Howell County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,330 ft 405 m1,210 ft 370 m970 ft 295 m730 ft 225 m610 ft 185 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Howell County averages about 1,060 ft (325 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 610 ft on the southeast side to 1,560 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
1,060 ft 325 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the north side
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southeast side
Howell County spans about 950 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
38 mi south to north through West Plains.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 40,762 2024 est.
- Land area
- 927.2 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Texas County1,250 ft
- Douglas County1,140 ft
- Howell County1,060 ft
- Shannon County980 ft
- Ozark County910 ft
- Oregon County770 ft
- Fulton County, AR740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri16th highest of 114
- Counties in the United States1,296th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- King Mountain1,526 ft
- Queens Mountain1,470 ft
- Tater Hill, Howell County1,430 ft
- Twin Mountain1,310 ft
- Payne Knob1,260 ft
All 6 towns in Howell County by typical elevation
- Willow Springs1,280 ft
- Pomona1,210 ft
- Mountain View1,170 ft
- South Fork1,120 ft
- West Plains1,020 ft
- Brandsville960 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 610 ft at 36.5001° N, 91.7051° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.