Elsa, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
93 ft 28 m85 ft 26 m81 ft 25 m72 ft 22 m64 ft 20 m60 ft 18 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
Elsa sits at about 67 ft (20 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
67 ft 20 m
most residents: 63–67 ft
Lowest
60 ft 18 m
on the east side
Highest
73 ft 22 m
on the north side
Average
66 ft 20 m
all land inside city limits
Elsa is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 13 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 67 ft20 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 73 ft22 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 60 ft18 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elsa | 66 ft20 m |
| Airport (TXW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi south of the city limits | 70 ft21 m |
| Average of all land | 66 ft20 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 5,750 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,276 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 26.2934° N, 97.9931° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mid Valley International (TXW) 70 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78543
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Muniz87 ft
- San Carlos74 ft
- La Blanca68 ft
- Elsa67 ft
- Olivarez66 ft
- Mila Doce63 ft
- Edcouch62 ft
- Indian Hills61 ft
- La Villa57 ft
- Laguna Seca56 ft
- Monte Alto55 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,615th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Hidalgo County47th 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, 57 ft at 26.2876° N, 97.9896° 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.