Canton, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m550 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 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
Canton sits at about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
510 ft 155 m
most residents: 490–540 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northeast side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Average
500 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Canton spans about 150 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Canton | 500 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 4,841 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.2 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 786 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.5565° N, 95.8633° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Sabine River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 75103
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ben Wheeler550 ft
- Wills Point520 ft
- Canton510 ft
- Myrtle Springs510 ft
- Van500 ft
- Callender Lake470 ft
- Fruitvale460 ft
- Edgewood460 ft
- Grand Saline440 ft
- Eustace420 ft
- Mabank400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas922nd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Van Zandt County3rd highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Hill, Van Zandt County690 ft
- Melton Rock680 ft
- Big Rock Top660 ft
- Red Hill, Van Zandt County580 ft
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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.