Mertens, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m550 ft 165 m540 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m520 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mertens sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 530–540 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the north side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside town limits
Mertens 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 510 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mertens | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Hill County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 156 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 359 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.0585° N, 96.8967° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Richland Creek → Trinity River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 76666
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Carl's Corner820 ft
- Bynum650 ft
- Hillsboro630 ft
- Milford620 ft
- Blooming Grove600 ft
- Penelope560 ft
- Italy560 ft
- Mertens540 ft
- Frost530 ft
- Barry500 ft
- Malone480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas886th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Hill County12th highest of 14
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.