Kaufman, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 m380 ft 115 m360 ft 110 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
Kaufman sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 420–460 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the southwest side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the west side
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside city limits
Kaufman spans about 120 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kaufman | 460 ft140 m |
| Airport (TRL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi north of the city limits | 474 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kaufman County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 9,785 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,004 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.5890° N, 96.3089° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Kings Creek → Cedar Creek Reservoir → Cedar Creek → Trinity River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Terrell Municipal (TRL) 474 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 75142
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Terrell510 ft
- Talty460 ft
- Heartland460 ft
- Oak Ridge450 ft
- Post Oak Bend440 ft
- Kaufman440 ft
- Grays Prairie430 ft
- Scurry430 ft
- Crandall420 ft
- Oak Grove420 ft
- Cottonwood410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,047th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Kaufman County9th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Breezy Hill540 ft
- Sand Hill, Kaufman County380 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.