Poteau, OK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m940 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m670 ft 205 m500 ft 150 m410 ft 125 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Poteau sits at about 500 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 150 m
most residents: 460–620 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the north side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
at the foot of the Sugar Loaf Mountains
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Poteau spans about 710 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 | 500 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Sugar Loaf Mountains | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Poteau | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (RKR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 451 ft137 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
| Nearest peak Cavanal Mountain, 1.3 mi west of the city limits | 2,380 ft725 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States
- Population
- 9,111 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.6 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 342 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0537° N, 94.6236° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ouachita
- Drains to
- Poteau River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Robert S Kerr (RKR) 451 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 74940 74953 74966
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Heavener570 ft
- Monroe530 ft
- Bokoshe520 ft
- Wister510 ft
- Rock Island500 ft
- Poteau500 ft
- Howe500 ft
- Cameron490 ft
- Spiro490 ft
- Shady Point470 ft
- Panama450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oklahoma814th highest of 838
- Towns in Le Flore County12th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quentin Peak2,670 ft
- Sugar Loaf Mountain2,570 ft
- Lynn Mountain2,480 ft
- Cavanal Mountain2,380 ft
- Blue Mountain1,830 ft
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.