Culberson County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,730 ft 2,660 m7,270 ft 2,215 m6,540 ft 1,995 m5,090 ft 1,550 m3,630 ft 1,105 m2,900 ft 885 m
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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
Culberson County averages about 4,130 ft (1,260 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,900 ft on the northeast side to 8,730 ft on Guadalupe Peak.
Average elevation
4,130 ft 1,260 m
all land inside the county
Highest
8,730 ft 2,660 m
on Guadalupe Peak
Lowest
2,900 ft 885 m
on the northeast side
Culberson County spans about 5,830 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 | 4,130 ft1,260 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Guadalupe Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 8,730 ft2,660 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,900 ft885 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
89 mi south to north through Van Horn.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 2,254 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,812.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.6 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Basin and Range 62%, Great Plains 38%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 50%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 46%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Otero County, NM5,270 ft
- Jeff Davis County4,910 ft
- Hudspeth County4,430 ft
- Culberson County4,130 ft
- Eddy County, NM3,750 ft
- Reeves County2,980 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas5th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States254th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Guadalupe Peak8,730 ft
- Bush Mountain8,630 ft
- Shumard Peak8,610 ft
- Bartlett Peak8,500 ft
- High Lonesome Peak5,630 ft
The one town in Culberson County
- Van Horn4,060 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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, 2,900 ft at 31.9826° N, 104.0285° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.