Nueces County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Nueces County, Texas, shaded from sea level on the Laguna Madre to 160 ft on the west side
Elevation
160 ft 50 m120 ft 40 m100 ft 30 m62 ft 19 m21 ft 6 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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County area
Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Nueces County averages about 55 ft (17 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Laguna Madre to 160 ft on the west side.

Average elevation
55 ft 17 m
all land inside the county
Highest
160 ft 50 m
on the west side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Laguna Madre

Nueces County spans about 160 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.

Under 1% of Nueces County's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 2% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map

FigureElevation
Average of all land55 ft17 m
Highest point
Inside the county, on the west side
160 ft50 m
Lowest point
Where the land meets the Laguna Madre
0 ft0 m

Elevation profile, west to east

58 mi west to east through Corpus Christi.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Nueces County, Texas, shaded from sea level on the Laguna Madre to 160 ft on the west side
County boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 20 ft (6 m).
Location
County in Texas, United States
Population
353,125 2024 est.
Land area
839.4 sq mi + 326.2 sq mi water
Density
421 per sq mi
Time zone
Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region
Coastal Plain 97%
Drains to
Gulf of America 46%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

  1. Jim Wells County210 ft
  2. San Patricio County62 ft
  3. Nueces County55 ft
  4. Kleberg County48 ft
  5. Aransas County10 ft

Rankings by average elevation

  • Counties in Texas241st highest of 254
  • Counties in the United States3,014th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

  • Fourmile Hill, Nueces County23 ft
All 16 towns in Nueces County by typical elevation
  1. City of Agua Dulce130 ft
  2. Rancho Banquete92 ft
  3. Banquete80 ft
  4. North San Pedro77 ft
  5. Robstown75 ft
  6. Spring Gardens74 ft
  7. Tierra Verde74 ft
  8. La Paloma-Lost Creek65 ft
  9. Driscoll61 ft
  10. Bishop58 ft
  11. Tierra Grande54 ft
  12. Petronila51 ft
  13. Sandy Hollow-Escondidas35 ft
  14. Corpus Christi26 ft
  15. Aransas Pass partly16 ft
  16. Port Aransas6 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. 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, −15 ft at 27.9262° N, 97.7876° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
  • 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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.