Tahlequah, OK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 315 m950 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m810 ft 245 m720 ft 220 m670 ft 205 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
Tahlequah sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 770–910 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the north side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside city limits
Tahlequah spans about 370 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 670 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tahlequah | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (TQH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 874 ft266 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States
- Population
- 17,319 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,357 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.9154° N, 94.9700° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Ozark Plateaus
- Drains to
- Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tahlequah Municipal (TQH) 874 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 74464
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Steely Hollow1,060 ft
- Grandview980 ft
- Eldon930 ft
- Briggs890 ft
- Gideon880 ft
- Sparrowhawk860 ft
- Tahlequah830 ft
- Welling820 ft
- Park Hill790 ft
- Shady Grove770 ft
- Woodall760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oklahoma494th highest of 838
- Towns in Cherokee County19th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cavanal Mountain2,380 ft
- Blue Mountain1,830 ft
- Hawkins Mountain1,040 ft
- Thompson Mountain980 ft
- Stick Ross Mountain960 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.