Howard County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,840 ft 865 m2,670 ft 815 m2,590 ft 790 m2,420 ft 740 m2,250 ft 685 m2,170 ft 660 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
Howard County averages about 2,520 ft (770 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,170 ft on the southeast side to 2,840 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
2,520 ft 770 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,840 ft 865 m
on the south side
Lowest
2,170 ft 660 m
on the southeast side
Howard County spans about 670 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 | 2,520 ft770 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 2,840 ft865 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,170 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
30 mi west to east through Big Spring.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 30,833 2024 est.
- Land area
- 900.8 sq mi + 3.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains 95%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Martin County2,770 ft
- Glasscock County2,650 ft
- Borden County2,560 ft
- Howard County2,520 ft
- Sterling County2,480 ft
- Mitchell County2,180 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas56th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States483rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Scenic Mountain2,812 ft
- Signal Mountains2,790 ft
- South Mountain2,790 ft
- West Gunsight Mountain2,720 ft
- Signal Peak2,710 ft
All 4 towns in Howard County by typical elevation
- Forsan2,780 ft
- Big Spring2,530 ft
- Sand Springs2,430 ft
- Coahoma2,410 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.