Mason, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 535 m1,690 ft 515 m1,650 ft 505 m1,570 ft 480 m1,500 ft 455 m1,460 ft 445 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
Mason sits at about 1,560 ft (475 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,560 ft 475 m
most residents: 1,530–1,600 ft
Lowest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,760 ft 535 m
on the west side
Average
1,550 ft 475 m
all land inside city limits
Mason spans about 300 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 | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mason | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Airport (T92) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi east of the city limits | 1,514 ft461 m |
| Average of all land | 1,550 ft475 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Mason County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 2,152 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.7 sq mi
- Density
- 589 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.7488° N, 99.2306° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Llano River → Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mason County (T92) 1,514 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 76856
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harper2,090 ft
- Menard1,910 ft
- Melvin1,850 ft
- Rochelle1,770 ft
- Brady1,720 ft
- Fredericksburg1,720 ft
- Junction1,720 ft
- Mason1,560 ft
- Richland Springs1,390 ft
- San Saba1,230 ft
- Llano1,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas292nd highest of 1,861
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Double Knobs, Mason County1,980 ft
- Purdy Hill1,840 ft
- Todd Mountain, Mason County1,720 ft
- Shaft Mountain1,690 ft
- Jordan Mountain1,550 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.