Big Wells, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m530 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m500 ft 150 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Big Wells sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 510–540 ft
Lowest
500 ft 150 m
on the southwest side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the northeast side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits
Big Wells spans about 60 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 500 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Wells | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dimmit County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 455 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 820 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 28.5733° N, 99.5687° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Nueces River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 78830
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Carrizo Hill620 ft
- Carrizo Springs610 ft
- Loma Grande590 ft
- Amaya580 ft
- Crystal City570 ft
- Chula Vista, Zavala County560 ft
- Asherton540 ft
- Catarina530 ft
- Brundage530 ft
- Big Wells520 ft
- Cotulla420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas912th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Dimmit Countylowest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Loma Vista Hill740 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.