Giddings, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m420 ft 125 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
Giddings sits at about 500 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 150 m
most residents: 470–510 ft
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the north side
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the southeast side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside city limits
Giddings spans about 100 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 | 500 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 420 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Giddings | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (GYB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi west of the city limits | 484 ft148 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lee County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 5,324 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,008 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.1827° N, 96.9364° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Giddings-lee County (GYB) 484 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78942
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McDade540 ft
- Paige530 ft
- Circle D-KC Estates510 ft
- Giddings500 ft
- Lexington460 ft
- Carmine440 ft
- Round Top420 ft
- Dime Box380 ft
- Smithville320 ft
- Plum320 ft
- La Grange280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas952nd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Lee Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hellers Hill560 ft
- Homeymeyer Mountain470 ft
- Buzzard Knobs430 ft
- Indian Hill, Fayette County330 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.