Gillespie County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,270 ft 695 m1,960 ft 600 m1,810 ft 550 m1,500 ft 455 m1,190 ft 365 m1,040 ft 315 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
Gillespie County averages about 1,840 ft (560 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,040 ft on the northeast side to 2,270 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
1,840 ft 560 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,270 ft 690 m
on the west side
Lowest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the northeast side
Gillespie County spans about 1,230 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 | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,270 ft690 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
43 mi west to east through Fredericksburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 28,159 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,058.2 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 27 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
- Kimble County2,040 ft
- Kerr County2,020 ft
- Gillespie County1,840 ft
- Mason County1,640 ft
- Kendall County1,560 ft
- Blanco County1,340 ft
- Llano County1,230 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas83rd highest of 254
- Counties in the United States673rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hermans Point2,240 ft
- Cherry Mountain2,190 ft
- Roundhead, Gillespie County2,140 ft
- Buckeye Point2,070 ft
- Lehmann Mountain2,040 ft
All 3 towns in Gillespie County by typical elevation
- Harper2,090 ft
- Fredericksburg1,720 ft
- Stonewall1,470 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. 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.