Odessa, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,010 ft 915 m2,970 ft 905 m2,950 ft 900 m2,910 ft 885 m2,870 ft 875 m2,850 ft 870 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Odessa sits at about 2,920 ft (890 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,920 ft 890 m
most residents: 2,890–2,970 ft
Lowest
2,850 ft 870 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,010 ft 915 m
on the north side
Average
2,920 ft 890 m
all land inside city limits
Odessa 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 | 2,920 ft890 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 3,010 ft915 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 2,850 ft870 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Odessa | 2,900 ft885 m |
| Airport (MAF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi northeast of the city limits | 2,872 ft875 m |
| Average of all land | 2,920 ft890 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ector and Midland counties, Texas, United States
- Population
- 119,748 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.5 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,282 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.8457° N, 102.3676° 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 7
- 79707 79761 79762 79763 79764 79765 79766
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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
- Monahans2,620 ft
- Thorntonville2,600 ft
- Southwest Sandhill2,600 ft
- Crane2,590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas142nd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Ector Countylowest of 4
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).
- 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, 2,840 ft at 31.8932° N, 102.2668° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.