Dallas, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 240 m670 ft 205 m620 ft 190 m510 ft 155 m410 ft 125 m350 ft 110 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dallas sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 440–640 ft
Lowest
350 ft 110 m
on the southeast side
Highest
780 ft 235 m
on the southwest side
Average
520 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Dallas spans about 430 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 780 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 350 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dallas | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (DAL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 487 ft148 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
25 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dallas, Collin and Denton counties, Texas, United States
- Population
- 1,326,087 2024 est.
- Land area
- 339.6 sq mi + 44.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,904 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.7831° N, 96.8067° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Trinity River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dallas Love Field (DAL) 487 ft
- ZIP codes 59
59 ZIP codes
75019 75051 75052 75087 75098 75126 75134 75166 75182 75201 75202 75203 75204 75205 75206 75207 75208 75209 75210 75211 75212 75214 75215 75216 75217 75218 75219 75220 75223 75224 75225 75226 75227 75228 75229 75230 75231 75232 75233 75234 75235 75236 75237 75238 75240 75241 75243 75244 75246 75247 75248 75249 75251 75252 75253 75254 75270 75287 75390
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Duncanville710 ft
- Cockrell Hill640 ft
- University Park570 ft
- Dallas540 ft
- Highland Park530 ft
- Grand Prairie520 ft
- Farmers Branch510 ft
- Mesquite500 ft
- Irving490 ft
- Balch Springs490 ft
- Hutchins490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas874th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Dallas County12th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Inspiration Point, Dallas County860 ft
- Mount Donwell720 ft
- Chalk Hill, Dallas County660 ft
- Hays Hills650 ft
- Sand Hill, Kaufman County380 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.