Panhandle, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,480 ft 1,060 m3,470 ft 1,055 m3,470 ft 1,055 m3,460 ft 1,055 m3,450 ft 1,050 m3,440 ft 1,050 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Panhandle sits at about 3,460 ft (1,055 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,460 ft 1,055 m
most residents: 3,450–3,470 ft
Lowest
3,440 ft 1,050 m
on the north side
Highest
3,470 ft 1,060 m
on the northwest side
Average
3,460 ft 1,055 m
all land inside town limits
Panhandle spans about 30 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 | 3,460 ft1,055 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 3,470 ft1,060 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 3,440 ft1,050 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Panhandle | 3,460 ft1,055 m |
| Airport (T45) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi northeast of the town limits | 3,454 ft1,053 m |
| Average of all land | 3,460 ft1,055 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,460 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.6 °F96.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.4 inHg (89.3 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Carson County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 2,315 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,090 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.3456° N, 101.3804° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- McClellan Creek → North Fork Red River → Red River → Atchafalaya River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Panhandle-carson County (T45) 3,454 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 79068
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Amarillo3,660 ft
- Washburn3,530 ft
- Panhandle3,460 ft
- Claude3,400 ft
- White Deer3,370 ft
- Skellytown3,270 ft
- Groom3,260 ft
- Fritch3,190 ft
- Lake Meredith Estates3,140 ft
- Borger3,100 ft
- Sanford3,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas79th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Carson Countyhighest of 4
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.