El Paso County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,170 ft 2,185 m6,270 ft 1,910 m5,820 ft 1,775 m4,910 ft 1,495 m4,010 ft 1,220 m3,550 ft 1,085 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
El Paso County averages about 4,060 ft (1,240 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,550 ft on the southeast side to 7,170 ft on North Franklin Mountain.
Average elevation
4,060 ft 1,240 m
all land inside the county
Highest
7,170 ft 2,185 m
on North Franklin Mountain
Lowest
3,550 ft 1,085 m
on the southeast side
El Paso County spans about 3,620 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 | 4,060 ft1,240 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on North Franklin Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 7,170 ft2,185 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 3,550 ft1,085 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through El Paso.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 875,784 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,013.5 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 864 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range 99%
- 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
- Otero County, NM5,270 ft
- Doña Ana County, NM4,450 ft
- Hudspeth County4,430 ft
- El Paso County4,060 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas7th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States259th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- North Franklin Mountain7,170 ft
- Anthonys Nose6,900 ft
- South Franklin Mountain6,770 ft
- Indian Peak, El Paso County6,540 ft
- Mount Franklin6,170 ft
All 19 towns in El Paso County by typical elevation
- Butterfield4,390 ft
- Homestead Meadows North4,070 ft
- Homestead Meadows South4,060 ft
- Horizon City4,030 ft
- Agua Dulce4,020 ft
- Westway3,990 ft
- El Paso3,960 ft
- Fort Bliss3,900 ft
- Sparks3,870 ft
- Anthony3,830 ft
- Vinton3,830 ft
- Canutillo3,790 ft
- Prado Verde3,760 ft
- Socorro3,660 ft
- San Elizario3,640 ft
- Clint3,640 ft
- Fabens3,630 ft
- Morning Glory3,630 ft
- Tornillo3,590 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; 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; 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, 3,550 ft at 31.3910° N, 105.9960° 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.