Shannon County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,140 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m810 ft 245 m590 ft 180 m480 ft 145 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
Shannon County averages about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 480 ft on the east side to 1,360 ft on Thorny Mountain.
Average elevation
980 ft 300 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
on Thorny Mountain
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the east side
Shannon County spans about 880 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Thorny Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
37 mi south to north through Winona.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 7,275 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,003.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.2 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
- Dent County1,190 ft
- Howell County1,060 ft
- Shannon County980 ft
- Reynolds County950 ft
- Oregon County770 ft
- Carter County730 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri28th highest of 114
- Counties in the United States1,444th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Thorny Mountain1,360 ft
- Mule Mountain1,330 ft
- Wildcat Mountain, Shannon County1,280 ft
- Coot Mountain1,260 ft
- Bald Knob, Shannon County1,250 ft
All 5 towns in Shannon County by typical elevation
- Summersville partly1,230 ft
- Montier1,060 ft
- Birch Tree1,020 ft
- Winona950 ft
- Eminence740 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.
- 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.