Hico, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,160 ft 355 m1,120 ft 340 m1,100 ft 335 m1,050 ft 320 m1,010 ft 305 m990 ft 300 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
Hico sits at about 1,060 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,060 ft 325 m
most residents: 1,010–1,110 ft
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside city limits
Hico spans about 170 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 | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 990 ft300 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hico | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hamilton County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 1,476 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 809 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.9829° N, 98.0336° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- North Bosque River → Brazos River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 76457
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dublin1,490 ft
- Carlton1,330 ft
- Stephenville1,320 ft
- Proctor1,210 ft
- Hamilton1,210 ft
- Hico1,060 ft
- Lamkin1,050 ft
- Cranfills Gap990 ft
- Walnut Springs920 ft
- Iredell890 ft
- Meridian770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas385th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Hamilton Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lone Mountain, Erath County1,407 ft
- Long Point, Hamilton County1,361 ft
- Johnson Peak, Bosque County1,250 ft
- Flat Top Mountain, Bosque County1,180 ft
- Cedar Mountain, Bosque County1,180 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).
- 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, 980 ft at 31.9760° N, 98.0263° 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.
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.