Pike County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,010 ft 305 m860 ft 265 m790 ft 240 m650 ft 195 m500 ft 155 m430 ft 130 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Pike County averages about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 430 ft on the east side to 1,010 ft on Buffalo Knob.

Average elevation

670 ft 205 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,010 ft 305 m

on Buffalo Knob

Lowest

430 ft 130 m

on the east side

Pike County spans about 580 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	670 ft205 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Buffalo Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height)	1,010 ft305 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side	430 ft130 m

Elevation profile, west to east

32 mi west to east through Bowling Green.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Missouri, United States
Population: 17,961 2024 est.
Land area: 670.4 sq mi + 14.3 sq mi water
Density: 27 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

Audrain County800 ft
Montgomery County740 ft
Ralls County680 ft
Pike County670 ft
Lincoln County610 ft
Pike County, IL600 ft
Calhoun County, IL570 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Missouri95th highest of 114
Counties in the United States2,084th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Buffalo Knob, Pike County1,010 ft
Springston Knob930 ft
Tedlock Knob910 ft
Ben Watts Knob900 ft
Long Knob880 ft

All 10 towns in Pike County by typical elevation

Bowling Green880 ft
Curryville820 ft
Eolia820 ft
St. Clement810 ft
Ashley740 ft
Frankford590 ft
Paynesville570 ft
Louisiana510 ft
Clarksville480 ft
Annada450 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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, 330 ft at 39.3635° N, 90.9543° 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.