Bishop, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
85 ft 26 m74 ft 22 m68 ft 21 m57 ft 17 m46 ft 14 m41 ft 13 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
Bishop sits at about 58 ft (18 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
58 ft 18 m
most residents: 57–62 ft
Lowest
41 ft 13 m
on the south side
Highest
85 ft 26 m
on the southeast side
Average
59 ft 18 m
all land inside city limits
Bishop spans about 44 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 | 58 ft18 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 85 ft26 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 41 ft13 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bishop | 62 ft19 m |
| Airport (07R) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi northeast of the city limits | 55 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 59 ft18 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nueces County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 3,057 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,267 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 27.5861° N, 97.7992° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Airport
- Bishop-windham (07R) 55 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78343
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- City of Agua Dulce130 ft
- Banquete80 ft
- Spring Gardens74 ft
- Tierra Verde74 ft
- La Paloma-Lost Creek65 ft
- Driscoll61 ft
- Kingsville60 ft
- Bishop58 ft
- Ricardo54 ft
- Tierra Grande54 ft
- Petronila51 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,636th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Nueces County10th highest of 15
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 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.