Brewster County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,760 ft 2,365 m6,170 ft 1,880 m5,370 ft 1,635 m3,780 ft 1,150 m2,180 ft 665 m1,390 ft 425 m
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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
Brewster County averages about 3,600 ft (1,100 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,390 ft on the east side to 7,760 ft on Emory Peak.
Average elevation
3,600 ft 1,100 m
all land inside the county
Highest
7,760 ft 2,365 m
on Emory Peak
Lowest
1,390 ft 420 m
on the east side
Brewster County spans about 6,370 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 | 3,600 ft1,100 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Emory Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 7,760 ft2,365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,390 ft420 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
93 mi south to north through Alpine.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 9,508 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6,183.8 sq mi + 8.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Basin and Range 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Jeff Davis County4,910 ft
- Presidio County4,250 ft
- Brewster County3,600 ft
- Pecos County3,130 ft
- Terrell County2,380 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas17th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States301st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Townsend Point7,560 ft
- Lost Mine Peak7,500 ft
- Cathedral Mountain6,830 ft
- Mount Ord6,805 ft
- Goat Mountain6,640 ft
All 4 towns in Brewster County by typical elevation
- Alpine4,490 ft
- Marathon4,070 ft
- Terlingua2,780 ft
- Study Butte2,580 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 3 arc-second (≈300 ft, 93 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 1,390 ft at 29.8412° N, 102.3654° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.