China, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
60 ft 18 m52 ft 16 m48 ft 15 m40 ft 12 m32 ft 10 m28 ft 8 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
China sits at about 37 ft (11 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
37 ft 11 m
most residents: 31–43 ft
Lowest
28 ft 8 m
on the south side
Highest
46 ft 14 m
on the northwest side
Average
37 ft 11 m
all land inside city limits
China is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 18 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 37 ft11 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 46 ft14 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 28 ft8 m |
| Town center USGS map point for China | 42 ft13 m |
| Airport (BMT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi east of the city limits | 32 ft10 m |
| Average of all land | 37 ft11 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 1,298 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 857 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.0480° N, 94.3357° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- Beaumont Municipal (BMT) 32 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 77613
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Devers57 ft
- Nome43 ft
- Sour Lake42 ft
- China37 ft
- Pinewood Estates29 ft
- Bevil Oaks26 ft
- Winnie24 ft
- Beaumont23 ft
- Rose Hill Acres20 ft
- Fannett19 ft
- Hamshire15 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,713th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Jefferson County2nd highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spindletop Hill21 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.