Glidden, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
320 ft 100 m300 ft 90 m280 ft 85 m260 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m220 ft 70 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glidden sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 230–250 ft
Lowest
220 ft 70 m
on the southeast side
Highest
320 ft 100 m
on the west side
Average
250 ft 75 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Glidden 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 320 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 220 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glidden | 230 ft70 m |
| Airport (66R) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 242 ft74 m |
| Average of all land | 250 ft75 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Colorado County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 741 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 745 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.7008° N, 96.5864° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Robert R Wells Jr (66R) 242 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78943
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fayetteville400 ft
- Weimar400 ft
- New Ulm400 ft
- Schulenburg350 ft
- Industry340 ft
- Ellinger290 ft
- Sheridan270 ft
- Rock Island240 ft
- Glidden230 ft
- Columbus200 ft
- Eagle Lake180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,346th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Colorado County4th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rocky Hill, Colorado County470 ft
- Live Oak Hill440 ft
- Wilson Hill, Colorado County290 ft
- Middle Brook Hill200 ft
- Alley Hill200 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 220 ft at 29.6976° N, 96.5774° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Glidden is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.