Brazos County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
440 ft 135 m360 ft 110 m320 ft 100 m250 ft 75 m180 ft 55 m140 ft 45 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Brazos County averages about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 140 ft on the southeast side to 440 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the county
Highest
440 ft 135 m
on the north side
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the southeast side
Brazos County spans about 300 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 440 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 140 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
31 mi south to north through College Station.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 249,624 2024 est.
- Land area
- 586.1 sq mi + 5.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 426 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Robertson County380 ft
- Burleson County320 ft
- Washington County300 ft
- Grimes County300 ft
- Brazos County280 ft
- Madison County270 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas210th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States2,653rd highest of 3,151
All 5 towns in Brazos County by typical elevation
- Wixon Valley330 ft
- Bryan330 ft
- Kurten320 ft
- Lake Bryan320 ft
- College Station310 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.