Martindale, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m560 ft 170 m550 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m490 ft 150 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
Martindale sits at about 550 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 165 m
most residents: 510–560 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the south side
Highest
580 ft 175 m
on the east side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits
Martindale 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 | 550 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Martindale | 530 ft160 m |
| Airport (HYI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi north of the city limits | 595 ft181 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Caldwell County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 1,266 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 614 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.8455° N, 97.8408° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- San Marcos River → Guadalupe River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- San Marcos Regional (HYI) 595 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78655
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mountain City840 ft
- Kyle710 ft
- San Marcos630 ft
- Redwood600 ft
- Niederwald600 ft
- Uhland580 ft
- Geronimo570 ft
- Martindale550 ft
- Lockhart530 ft
- Kingsbury530 ft
- Staples530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas859th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Caldwell County2nd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Trunk Hill940 ft
- Coal Kiln Hill920 ft
- Mill Creek Hills740 ft
- Koeglar Hill680 ft
- Bading Hill670 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.