Midland, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,950 ft 900 m2,900 ft 885 m2,870 ft 875 m2,820 ft 860 m2,760 ft 840 m2,730 ft 835 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Midland sits at about 2,820 ft (860 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,820 ft 860 m
most residents: 2,770–2,860 ft
Lowest
2,730 ft 835 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,950 ft 900 m
on the west side
Average
2,820 ft 860 m
all land inside city limits
Midland spans about 220 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 | 2,820 ft860 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 2,950 ft900 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,730 ft835 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Midland | 2,780 ft845 m |
| Airport (MAF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,872 ft875 m |
| Average of all land | 2,820 ft860 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Midland and Martin counties, Texas, United States
- Population
- 143,687 2024 est.
- Land area
- 76.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,885 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.9973° N, 102.0779° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Beals Creek → Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Midland International Air and Space Port (MAF) 2,872 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 79701 79703 79705 79706 79707
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Andrews3,180 ft
- McKinney Acres3,160 ft
- Goldsmith3,140 ft
- West Odessa2,960 ft
- Gardendale2,960 ft
- Odessa2,920 ft
- Midland2,820 ft
- Ackerly2,800 ft
- Stanton2,680 ft
- Garden City2,650 ft
- Big Spring2,530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas148th highest of 1,861
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Range Hill2,820 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.