Wright County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,750 ft 535 m1,560 ft 475 m1,460 ft 445 m1,280 ft 390 m1,090 ft 330 m990 ft 300 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
Wright County averages about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 990 ft on the north side to 1,750 ft on Lead Hill.
Average elevation
1,340 ft 410 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,750 ft 535 m
on Lead Hill
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the north side
Wright County spans about 760 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 | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Lead Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 990 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
29 mi south to north through Mountain Grove.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 19,505 2024 est.
- Land area
- 681.8 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 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
- Webster County1,430 ft
- Wright County1,340 ft
- Texas County1,250 ft
- Laclede County1,150 ft
- Douglas County1,140 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri2nd highest of 114
- Counties in the United States971st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Lead Hill, Wright County1,750 ft
- Mary Gray Hill1,680 ft
- Pleasant Knob1,617 ft
- Bald Knob Mountain1,570 ft
All 5 towns in Wright County by typical elevation
- Mansfield1,480 ft
- Mountain Grove1,470 ft
- Norwood1,470 ft
- Grovespring1,330 ft
- Hartville1,230 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.