Pearland, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
86 ft 26 m69 ft 21 m60 ft 18 m43 ft 13 m26 ft 8 m17 ft 5 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
Pearland sits at about 50 ft (15 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
50 ft 15 m
most residents: 39–62 ft
Lowest
17 ft 5 m
on the southeast side
Highest
86 ft 26 m
on the west side
Average
49 ft 15 m
all land inside city limits
Pearland spans about 69 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 | 50 ft15 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 86 ft26 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 17 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pearland | 47 ft14 m |
| Airport (HOU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi north of the city limits | 46 ft14 m |
| Average of all land | 49 ft15 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
14 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Brazoria, Harris and Fort Bend counties, Texas, United States
- Population
- 129,620 2024 est.
- Land area
- 49.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,634 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.5636° N, 95.2860° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- William P Hobby (HOU) 46 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 77047 77089 77511 77581 77584
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fresno69 ft
- Arcola61 ft
- Manvel55 ft
- Pearland50 ft
- Brookside Village46 ft
- Alvin39 ft
- South Houston30 ft
- Pasadena30 ft
- Friendswood28 ft
- Webster17 ft
- Nassau Bay11 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,668th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Brazoria County5th highest of 28
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. All public domain.