Madison County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m350 ft 105 m310 ft 95 m240 ft 75 m170 ft 50 m130 ft 40 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
Madison County averages about 270 ft (85 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 130 ft on the east side to 430 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
270 ft 85 m
all land inside the county
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the north side
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the east side
Madison County spans about 300 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 | 270 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
33 mi west to east through Madisonville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 13,877 2024 est.
- Land area
- 466.1 sq mi + 6.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Leon County350 ft
- Houston County310 ft
- Grimes County300 ft
- Walker County280 ft
- Brazos County280 ft
- Madison County270 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas212th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States2,668th highest of 3,151
All 3 towns in Madison County by typical elevation
- Normangee partly380 ft
- Madisonville280 ft
- Midway250 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.