Lamesa, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,010 ft 915 m2,990 ft 910 m2,980 ft 905 m2,950 ft 900 m2,930 ft 895 m2,920 ft 890 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
Lamesa sits at about 2,990 ft (910 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,990 ft 910 m
most residents: 2,970–3,000 ft
Lowest
2,920 ft 890 m
on the south side
Highest
3,010 ft 915 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,980 ft 905 m
all land inside city limits
Lamesa spans about 90 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 | 2,990 ft910 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 3,010 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 2,920 ft890 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lamesa | 2,990 ft910 m |
| Airport (LUV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi northeast of the city limits | 2,999 ft914 m |
| Average of all land | 2,980 ft905 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dawson County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 8,108 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,585 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.7376° N, 101.9510° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beals Creek → Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lamesa Municipal (LUV) 2,999 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 79331
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Seagraves3,350 ft
- Wellman3,340 ft
- Brownfield3,310 ft
- Loop3,250 ft
- Welch3,120 ft
- Tahoka3,110 ft
- O'Donnell3,050 ft
- Lamesa2,990 ft
- Los Ybanez2,970 ft
- Ackerly2,800 ft
- Gail2,560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas136th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Dawson County2nd highest of 4
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.