Cameron County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
110 ft 35 m86 ft 26 m71 ft 22 m43 ft 13 m14 ft 4 m0 ft 0 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
Cameron County averages about 27 ft (8 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Laguna Madre to 110 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
27 ft 8 m
all land inside the county
Highest
110 ft 35 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Laguna Madre
Cameron County spans about 110 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.
1% of Cameron County's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 3% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 27 ft8 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 110 ft35 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Laguna Madre | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
31 mi south to north through Brownsville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 431,874 2024 est.
- Land area
- 891.7 sq mi + 388.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 484 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain 92%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hidalgo County120 ft
- Cameron County27 ft
- Willacy County25 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas246th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States3,075th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Loma Alta, Cameron County40 ft
- La Atravezada35 ft
- Rincon de las Viejas34 ft
- Loma de la Jauja32 ft
- Loma la Cuchilla31 ft
All 54 towns in Cameron County by typical elevation
- Santa Maria67 ft
- Iglesia Antigua62 ft
- Bixby58 ft
- Bluetown58 ft
- Solis57 ft
- La Feria North56 ft
- La Feria55 ft
- Los Indios55 ft
- Ratamosa54 ft
- Rangerville51 ft
- Santa Rosa50 ft
- Tierra Bonita48 ft
- Palmer, Cameron County46 ft
- Yznaga45 ft
- Rice Tracts45 ft
- Encantada-Ranchito-El Calaboz44 ft
- Palm Valley44 ft
- La Paloma42 ft
- Las Palmas II42 ft
- Primera42 ft
- San Pedro42 ft
- Juarez40 ft
- Lago40 ft
- El Camino Angosto39 ft
- Harlingen39 ft
- Combes38 ft
- San Benito37 ft
- Rancho Viejo36 ft
- Indian Lake34 ft
- Lasana33 ft
- Olmito32 ft
- Villa del Sol31 ft
- Arroyo Colorado Estates28 ft
- Brownsville27 ft
- Rio Hondo27 ft
- Lozano27 ft
- Los Fresnos26 ft
- Bayview25 ft
- Cameron Park24 ft
- Laureles22 ft
- Green Valley Farms22 ft
- Reid Hope King21 ft
- La Tina Ranch20 ft
- Villa Pancho19 ft
- Arroyo Gardens18 ft
- Orason17 ft
- Chula Vista, Cameron County16 ft
- South Point15 ft
- Del Mar Heights12 ft
- Laguna Vista11 ft
- Laguna Heights9 ft
- Port Isabel8 ft
- South Padre Island6 ft
- Starbase4 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.
- 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, −3 ft at 25.9754° N, 97.3621° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.