Pecos County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,460 ft 1,665 m4,600 ft 1,400 m4,170 ft 1,270 m3,320 ft 1,010 m2,460 ft 750 m2,030 ft 620 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pecos County averages about 3,130 ft (955 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,030 ft on the east side to 5,460 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
3,130 ft 955 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,460 ft 1,665 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
2,030 ft 620 m
on the east side
Pecos County spans about 3,430 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 3,130 ft955 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 5,460 ft1,665 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 2,030 ft620 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
72 mi south to north through Fort Stockton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 14,712 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4,763.8 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 81%, Basin and Range 19%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Jeff Davis County4,910 ft
- Brewster County3,600 ft
- Pecos County3,130 ft
- Reeves County2,980 ft
- Ward County2,610 ft
- Crane County2,560 ft
- Crockett County2,430 ft
- Terrell County2,380 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas32nd highest of 254
- Counties in the United States361st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Beard Mountain, Pecos County5,026 ft
- Clark Butte4,800 ft
- Dimple Hills4,790 ft
- Pine Mesa, Pecos County4,630 ft
- Sierra Madera4,580 ft
All 5 towns in Pecos County by typical elevation
- Fort Stockton2,980 ft
- Coyanosa2,610 ft
- Imperial2,390 ft
- Iraan2,220 ft
- Sheffield2,160 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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, 2,030 ft at 30.6543° N, 101.7693° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.