Fayette County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m490 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m340 ft 105 m240 ft 70 m190 ft 55 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
Fayette County averages about 370 ft (110 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 190 ft on the southeast side to 590 ft on Obar Hill.
Average elevation
370 ft 110 m
all land inside the county
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on Obar Hill
Lowest
190 ft 55 m
on the southeast side
Fayette County spans about 400 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 | 370 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Obar Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 190 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
32 mi south to north through La Grange.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 25,488 2024 est.
- Land area
- 949.9 sq mi + 9.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 27 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Caldwell County500 ft
- Bastrop County470 ft
- Lee County410 ft
- Fayette County370 ft
- Gonzales County340 ft
- Washington County300 ft
- Lavaca County250 ft
- Colorado County240 ft
- Austin County230 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas188th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States2,524th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Obar Hill590 ft
- Hellers Hill560 ft
- Monument Hill, Fayette County490 ft
- Live Oak Hill440 ft
- Indian Hill, Fayette County330 ft
All 8 towns in Fayette County by typical elevation
- Flatonia460 ft
- Carmine440 ft
- Round Top420 ft
- Fayetteville400 ft
- Schulenburg350 ft
- Plum320 ft
- Ellinger290 ft
- La Grange280 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.
- 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.