Alva, OK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 455 m1,450 ft 440 m1,420 ft 435 m1,380 ft 420 m1,330 ft 405 m1,300 ft 400 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Alva sits at about 1,380 ft (420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,380 ft 420 m
most residents: 1,350–1,480 ft
Lowest
1,300 ft 400 m
on the east side
Highest
1,500 ft 455 m
on the west side
Average
1,420 ft 430 m
all land inside city limits
Alva spans about 200 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 | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,300 ft400 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alva | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Airport (AVK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,477 ft450 m |
| Average of all land | 1,420 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Woods County, Oklahoma, United States
- Population
- 4,962 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.3 sq mi
- Density
- 788 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.8050° N, 98.6665° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Salt Fork Arkansas River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Alva Regional (AVK) 1,477 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 73717
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Avard1,480 ft
- Elwood Township, KS1,430 ft
- Hardtner, KS1,430 ft
- Hopeton1,410 ft
- Alva1,380 ft
- Dacoma1,360 ft
- Kiowa, KS1,330 ft
- Kiowa Township, KS1,330 ft
- Lambert1,280 ft
- Burlington1,220 ft
- Cherokee1,180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oklahoma108th highest of 838
- Towns in Woods County5th highest of 6
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.