El Rancho Vela, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
300 ft 90 m290 ft 90 m280 ft 85 m280 ft 85 m270 ft 80 m260 ft 80 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
El Rancho Vela sits at about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
280 ft 85 m
few residents
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the south side
Highest
290 ft 90 m
on the west side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
El Rancho Vela spans about 30 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 290 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (67R) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi west of the CDP boundary | 290 ft88 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Starr County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 254 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,969 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 26.4039° N, 98.7685° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rio Grande City Municipal (67R) 290 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78582
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Carla340 ft
- Sammy Martinez300 ft
- Martinez300 ft
- Netos290 ft
- El Rancho Vela280 ft
- El Mesquite260 ft
- B and E200 ft
- Las Lomas190 ft
- Valle Hermoso180 ft
- Santa Cruz160 ft
- Garza-Salinas II160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,291st highest of 1,861
- Towns in Starr County20th highest of 115
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gongora Hill340 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
- El Rancho Vela is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.