Northwoods, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 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
Northwoods sits at about 600 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 185 m
most residents: 530–620 ft
Lowest
500 ft 150 m
on the east side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
on the west side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside city limits
Northwoods spans about 150 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 | 600 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 500 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Northwoods | 570 ft170 m |
| Airport (STL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi northwest of the city limits | 617 ft188 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 3,592 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 5,146 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7042° N, 90.2834° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- St Louis Lambert International (STL) 617 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 63121
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pasadena Hills640 ft
- Pasadena Park640 ft
- Beverly Hills640 ft
- Norwood Court630 ft
- Velda City620 ft
- Northwoods600 ft
- Uplands Park600 ft
- Velda Village Hills590 ft
- Pine Lawn560 ft
- Country Club Hills540 ft
- Flordell Hills510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri1,081st highest of 1,352
- Towns in St. Louis County28th highest of 97
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mound (historical)500 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.