Gatesville, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m980 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Gatesville sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 800–1,020 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the northeast side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Gatesville spans about 350 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 Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gatesville | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (GOP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 905 ft276 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Coryell County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 16,388 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,538 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.4352° N, 97.7439° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Leon River → Little River → Brazos River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Gatesville Municipal (GOP) 905 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 76528 76596 76597 76598 76599
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- South Mountain1,020 ft
- Mosheim930 ft
- Fort Cavazos920 ft
- Killeen890 ft
- Oglesby850 ft
- Gatesville850 ft
- Flat850 ft
- McGregor720 ft
- Crawford700 ft
- Mound690 ft
- Valley Mills600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas492nd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Coryell County6th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bagget Mountain1,180 ft
- Henson Mountains1,030 ft
- Bald Knob, Coryell County990 ft
- Dalton Mountain970 ft
- Langford Mountain, Coryell County890 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).
- 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.