El Refugio, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
170 ft 50 m160 ft 50 m160 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m140 ft 45 m140 ft 40 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 Refugio sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
150 ft 45 m
few residents
Lowest
140 ft 40 m
on the south side
Highest
160 ft 50 m
on the north side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
El Refugio is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 160 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 140 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for El Refugio | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (67R) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 290 ft88 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Starr County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 407 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 652 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 26.3403° N, 98.7559° 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
- B and E200 ft
- Chaparrito200 ft
- Amada Acres170 ft
- Santa Cruz160 ft
- La Puerta160 ft
- Garza-Salinas II160 ft
- Santa Rosa, Starr County160 ft
- La Casita160 ft
- El Chaparral160 ft
- Camargito150 ft
- El Refugio150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,481st highest of 1,861
- Towns in Starr County110th highest of 115
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 Refugio 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.