Scotland County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

910 ft 275 m830 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m730 ft 220 m650 ft 200 m620 ft 190 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

Scotland County averages about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 620 ft on the southeast side to 910 ft on the southwest side.

Average elevation

760 ft 230 m

all land inside the county

Highest

910 ft 275 m

on the southwest side

Lowest

620 ft 190 m

on the southeast side

Scotland County spans about 290 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	760 ft230 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	910 ft275 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	620 ft190 m

Elevation profile, west to east

21 mi west to east through Memphis.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Missouri, United States
Population: 4,698 2024 est.
Land area: 436.5 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
Density: 11 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

Adair County890 ft
Schuyler County890 ft
Davis County, IA830 ft
Knox County770 ft
Scotland County760 ft
Van Buren County, IA710 ft
Clark County650 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Missouri79th highest of 114
Counties in the United States1,907th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Spillman Mound760 ft

All 5 towns in Scotland County by typical elevation

Memphis780 ft
Rutledge760 ft
Granger760 ft
South Gorin730 ft
Arbela670 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.