Deaf Smith County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,470 ft 1,365 m4,270 ft 1,300 m4,160 ft 1,270 m3,960 ft 1,205 m3,750 ft 1,145 m3,650 ft 1,110 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Deaf Smith County averages about 4,050 ft (1,235 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,650 ft on the east side to 4,470 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
4,050 ft 1,235 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,470 ft 1,365 m
on the west side
Lowest
3,650 ft 1,110 m
on the east side
Deaf Smith County spans about 820 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 | 4,050 ft1,235 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 4,470 ft1,365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,650 ft1,110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
50 mi west to east through Hereford.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 18,495 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,496.8 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 92%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Curry County, NM4,440 ft
- Quay County, NM4,330 ft
- Parmer County4,060 ft
- Deaf Smith County4,050 ft
- Castro County3,790 ft
- Oldham County3,720 ft
- Randall County3,630 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas8th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States261st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Chalk Hill, Deaf Smith County4,020 ft
The one town in Deaf Smith County
- Hereford3,830 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.