Ben Wheeler, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m550 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ben Wheeler sits at about 550 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 165 m
most residents: 530–570 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the northeast side
Highest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Average
530 ft 165 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ben Wheeler spans about 100 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 | 550 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ben Wheeler | 530 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 456 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 152 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.4460° N, 95.7039° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Neches River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 75754
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ben Wheeler550 ft
- Canton510 ft
- Myrtle Springs510 ft
- Van500 ft
- Edom500 ft
- Hideaway490 ft
- Callender Lake470 ft
- Murchison460 ft
- Grand Saline440 ft
- Brownsboro410 ft
- Chandler410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas856th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Van Zandt Countyhighest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Hill, Van Zandt County690 ft
- Jennings Mountain693 ft
- Big Rock Top660 ft
- Red Hill, Van Zandt County580 ft
- Mount Sinai580 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Ben Wheeler is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.