Athens, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m530 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m400 ft 125 m380 ft 115 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
Athens sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 470–520 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the west side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside city limits
Athens spans about 210 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Athens | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (F44) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 444 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Henderson County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 13,575 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.8 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 761 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.2049° N, 95.8555° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Trinity River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Athens Municipal (F44) 444 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 75751 75752
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Athens490 ft
- Callender Lake470 ft
- Murchison460 ft
- Eustace420 ft
- Log Cabin370 ft
- Malakoff360 ft
- Payne Springs350 ft
- Caney City350 ft
- Enchanted Oaks340 ft
- Star Harbor340 ft
- Trinidad300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas965th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Henderson Countyhighest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tater Hill Mountain770 ft
- Jennings Mountain693 ft
- Cooper Mountain, Henderson County690 ft
- Melton Rock680 ft
- Pine Grove Hill500 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 380 ft at 32.1910° N, 95.9163° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.