Callahan County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,300 ft 700 m2,060 ft 625 m1,940 ft 590 m1,700 ft 520 m1,460 ft 445 m1,340 ft 410 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
Callahan County averages about 1,800 ft (550 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,340 ft on the northeast side to 2,300 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,800 ft 550 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,300 ft 700 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the northeast side
Callahan County spans about 960 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 | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,340 ft410 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
30 mi west to east through Clyde.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 14,615 2024 est.
- Land area
- 899.4 sq mi + 1.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 16 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 70%, Great Plains 30%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Taylor County2,010 ft
- Callahan County1,800 ft
- Coleman County1,700 ft
- Jones County1,690 ft
- Shackelford County1,540 ft
- Brown County1,520 ft
- Eastland County1,520 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas86th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States686th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Eagle Mountain, Callahan County2,210 ft
- Tecumseh Peak2,200 ft
- West Caddo Peak2,080 ft
- Mexican Hat Hill2,056 ft
- Flattop2,030 ft
All 4 towns in Callahan County by typical elevation
- Clyde1,990 ft
- Cross Plains1,740 ft
- Baird1,730 ft
- Putnam1,600 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.