Childress, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,000 ft 610 m1,950 ft 595 m1,930 ft 590 m1,880 ft 570 m1,830 ft 555 m1,800 ft 550 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
Childress sits at about 1,890 ft (575 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,890 ft 575 m
most residents: 1,860–1,960 ft
Lowest
1,800 ft 550 m
near the middle
Highest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,920 ft 585 m
all land inside city limits
Childress spans about 200 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 | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Childress | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Airport (CDS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,954 ft596 m |
| Average of all land | 1,920 ft585 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Childress County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 5,683 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 688 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4265° N, 100.2040° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red River → Atchafalaya River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Childress Municipal (CDS) 1,954 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 79201
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lakeview2,120 ft
- Memphis2,070 ft
- Wellington2,030 ft
- Childress1,890 ft
- Paducah1,880 ft
- Estelline1,830 ft
- Dodson1,790 ft
- Gould, OK1,630 ft
- Hollis, OK1,630 ft
- Quanah1,570 ft
- Eldorado, OK1,440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas242nd highest of 1,861
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wolf Mountain, Hall County2,120 ft
- Flat Top, Childress County1,850 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.