Murchison, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m530 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m470 ft 145 m430 ft 130 m410 ft 125 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
Murchison sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 450–510 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the northeast side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the southwest side
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside city limits
Murchison spans about 160 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Murchison | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (F44) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi southwest of the city limits | 444 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Henderson County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 516 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 327 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.2785° N, 95.7497° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Kickapoo Creek → Neches River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Athens Municipal (F44) 444 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 75778
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ben Wheeler550 ft
- Edom500 ft
- Athens490 ft
- Callender Lake470 ft
- Murchison460 ft
- Moore Station430 ft
- Eustace420 ft
- Brownsboro410 ft
- Chandler410 ft
- Sunrise Shores370 ft
- Log Cabin370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,015th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Henderson County2nd highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tater Hill Mountain770 ft
- Jennings Mountain693 ft
- Melton Rock680 ft
- Big Rock Top660 ft
- Pine Grove Hill500 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.