Van Buren, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m720 ft 220 m670 ft 205 m580 ft 175 m490 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Van Buren sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 480–710 ft
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
near the middle
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on the north side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside town limits
Van Buren spans about 360 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 450 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Van Buren | 470 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Carter County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 775 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 418 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9956° N, 91.0146° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- Current River → Black River → White River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 63965
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Winona950 ft
- Hunter740 ft
- Ellsinore740 ft
- Eminence740 ft
- Ellington730 ft
- Fremont630 ft
- Grandin600 ft
- Piedmont530 ft
- Van Buren520 ft
- Mill Spring470 ft
- Williamsville410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri1,189th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Carter Countylowest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Roebell Mountain1,120 ft
- Little Thorny Mountain1,060 ft
- Windes Hill900 ft
- Retort Hill830 ft
- Cataract Hill710 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.