Gaines County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,700 ft 1,130 m3,510 ft 1,070 m3,410 ft 1,040 m3,220 ft 980 m3,030 ft 925 m2,930 ft 895 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
Gaines County averages about 3,320 ft (1,010 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,930 ft on the southeast side to 3,700 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
3,320 ft 1,010 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,700 ft 1,130 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
2,930 ft 895 m
on the southeast side
Gaines County spans about 770 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 | 3,320 ft1,010 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,700 ft1,130 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,930 ft895 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
50 mi west to east through Seminole.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 22,892 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,502.4 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lea County, NM3,790 ft
- Yoakum County3,650 ft
- Terry County3,340 ft
- Gaines County3,320 ft
- Andrews County3,180 ft
- Dawson County2,960 ft
- Martin County2,770 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas26th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States338th highest of 3,151
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. 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, 2,930 ft at 32.5271° N, 102.2040° 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.