Lafayette County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,080 ft 330 m970 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m810 ft 250 m700 ft 215 m650 ft 200 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
Lafayette County averages about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 650 ft on the southeast side to 1,080 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
800 ft 245 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
650 ft 200 m
on the southeast side
Lafayette County spans about 430 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
33 mi west to east through Odessa.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 33,511 2024 est.
- Land area
- 628.3 sq mi + 10.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 53 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Jackson County890 ft
- Ray County830 ft
- Pettis County830 ft
- Johnson County830 ft
- Lafayette County800 ft
- Carroll County740 ft
- Saline County720 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri68th highest of 114
- Counties in the United States1,811th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wagon Knob1,007 ft
- Bryant Knob, Lafayette County920 ft
All 17 towns in Lafayette County by typical elevation
- Odessa920 ft
- Mayview890 ft
- Lake Lafayette890 ft
- Corder860 ft
- Oak Grove partly840 ft
- Lexington840 ft
- Bates City840 ft
- Higginsville820 ft
- Alma810 ft
- Dover800 ft
- Waverly790 ft
- Blackburn partly790 ft
- Concordia780 ft
- Napoleon780 ft
- Wellington780 ft
- Emma partly740 ft
- Aullville730 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.
- 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.