Mitchell County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,570 ft 785 m2,410 ft 735 m2,330 ft 710 m2,160 ft 660 m2,000 ft 610 m1,920 ft 585 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mitchell County averages about 2,180 ft (665 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,920 ft on the southeast side to 2,570 ft on Stepp Mountain.
Average elevation
2,180 ft 665 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,570 ft 785 m
on Stepp Mountain
Lowest
1,920 ft 585 m
on the southeast side
Mitchell County spans about 650 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Stepp Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,570 ft785 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,920 ft585 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
30 mi west to east through Colorado City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 8,968 2024 est.
- Land area
- 911.1 sq mi + 4.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.8 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 82%, Central Lowland 18%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Borden County2,560 ft
- Howard County2,520 ft
- Sterling County2,480 ft
- Scurry County2,360 ft
- Nolan County2,350 ft
- Mitchell County2,180 ft
- Coke County2,130 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas69th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States562nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Stepp Mountain2,570 ft
- Lone Wolf Mountain2,460 ft
- Morgan Peak2,270 ft
- Beals Mountain2,260 ft
- Clay Smith Peak2,230 ft
All 4 towns in Mitchell County by typical elevation
- Loraine2,290 ft
- Westbrook2,170 ft
- Colorado City2,120 ft
- Lake Colorado City2,090 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 1,920 ft at 32.0904° N, 100.7896° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.