Aurora, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 260 m810 ft 250 m790 ft 240 m750 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m680 ft 205 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
Aurora sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 700–770 ft
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the northwest side
Highest
860 ft 260 m
on the north side
Average
750 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
Aurora spans about 180 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 860 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 680 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Aurora | 810 ft250 m |
| Airport (4T2) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi south of the city limits | 693 ft211 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Wise County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 1,618 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.7 sq mi
- Density
- 435 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.0607° N, 97.5034° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- West Fork Trinity River → Trinity River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kenneth Copeland (4T2) 693 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 76078
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Fairview910 ft
- Rhome910 ft
- Sanctuary760 ft
- Haslet760 ft
- Reno760 ft
- Briar740 ft
- Aurora720 ft
- Boyd720 ft
- Newark690 ft
- Pecan Acres680 ft
- Pelican Bay680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas599th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Wise County10th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Indian Knob1,280 ft
- Tater Hill, Parker County1,240 ft
- Pat Dick Hill970 ft
- Burton Knob920 ft
- Blue Mound, Tarrant County860 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, 670 ft at 33.0510° N, 97.5299° 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. All public domain.