Manvel, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
86 ft 26 m73 ft 22 m67 ft 20 m54 ft 17 m42 ft 13 m35 ft 11 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Manvel sits at about 55 ft (17 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
55 ft 17 m
most residents: 49–59 ft
Lowest
36 ft 11 m
on the northwest side
Highest
86 ft 26 m
on the north side
Average
52 ft 16 m
all land inside city limits
Manvel spans about 50 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 | 55 ft17 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 86 ft26 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 36 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Manvel | 51 ft15 m |
| Airport (HOU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi north of the city limits | 46 ft14 m |
| Average of all land | 52 ft16 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Brazoria County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 19,309 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 708 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.4627° N, 95.3580° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- William P Hobby (HOU) 46 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 77511 77578 77583 77584
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fresno69 ft
- Arcola61 ft
- Sienna57 ft
- Sandy Point56 ft
- Manvel55 ft
- Iowa Colony53 ft
- Pearland50 ft
- Brookside Village46 ft
- Rosharon45 ft
- Alvin39 ft
- Hillcrest Village35 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,649th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Brazoria County3rd highest of 28
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, 32 ft at 29.4521° N, 95.3851° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.