Newton County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

610 ft 185 m460 ft 140 m380 ft 115 m230 ft 70 m82 ft 25 m8 ft 2 m

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USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Newton County averages about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 8 ft on the south side to 610 ft on the north side.

Average elevation

170 ft 50 m

all land inside the county

Highest

610 ft 185 m

on the north side

Lowest

8 ft 2 m

on the south side

Newton County spans about 602 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	170 ft50 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the north side	610 ft185 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side	8 ft2 m

Elevation profile, south to north

64 mi south to north through Newton.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Texas, United States
Population: 11,908 2024 est.
Land area: 933.7 sq mi + 6.1 sq mi water
Density: 13 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Texas230th highest of 254
Counties in the United States2,830th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Twin Hills510 ft
Gunter Hill290 ft
Runyon Hills257 ft

All 3 towns in Newton County by typical elevation

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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
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.