Pecan Hill, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m550 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m490 ft 150 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Pecan Hill sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 520–570 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the south side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the north side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside city limits
Pecan Hill spans about 100 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pecan Hill | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (LNC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi northeast of the city limits | 501 ft153 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ellis County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 748 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 500 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.4865° N, 96.7858° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Trinity River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lancaster Regional (LNC) 501 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 75154 75165
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ovilla690 ft
- Glenn Heights660 ft
- DeSoto650 ft
- Red Oak610 ft
- Oak Leaf610 ft
- Waxahachie600 ft
- Lancaster580 ft
- Bear Creek Ranch560 ft
- Pecan Hill530 ft
- Ferris470 ft
- Palmer460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas907th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Ellis County10th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Inspiration Point, Dallas County860 ft
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, 480 ft at 32.4774° N, 96.7913° 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.