Edinburg, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
190 ft 60 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m80 ft 24 m64 ft 20 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
Edinburg sits at about 96 ft (29 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
96 ft 29 m
most residents: 89–100 ft
Lowest
64 ft 20 m
on the north side
Highest
190 ft 60 m
on the north side
Average
94 ft 29 m
all land inside city limits
Edinburg spans about 126 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 | 96 ft29 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 190 ft60 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 64 ft20 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Edinburg | 95 ft29 m |
| Airport (MFE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi southwest of the city limits | 107 ft33 m |
| Average of all land | 94 ft29 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 108,733 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,303 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 26.3017° N, 98.1633° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mc Allen International (MFE) 107 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 78539 78541 78542
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- San Juan100 ft
- Pharr100 ft
- Lopezville100 ft
- North Alamo100 ft
- Edinburg96 ft
- Murillo95 ft
- Muniz87 ft
- Doolittle87 ft
- César Chávez87 ft
- San Carlos74 ft
- La Blanca68 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,550th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Hidalgo County27th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Harmony Hill97 ft
- Sunrise Hill79 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).
- 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, 58 ft at 26.4399° N, 98.1224° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.