Penitas, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m200 ft 60 m190 ft 55 m150 ft 45 m120 ft 35 m100 ft 30 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
Penitas sits at about 170 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 55 m
most residents: 160–220 ft
Lowest
100 ft 30 m
on the southwest side
Highest
230 ft 70 m
on the north side
Average
180 ft 55 m
all land inside city limits
Penitas spans about 130 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 | 170 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 100 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Penitas | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (MFE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi east of the city limits | 107 ft33 m |
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 6,568 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.4 sq mi
- Density
- 701 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 26.2306° N, 98.4447° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mc Allen International (MFE) 107 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 78572 78576
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Salida del Sol Estates230 ft
- Doffing190 ft
- West Sharyland180 ft
- La Homa180 ft
- Penitas170 ft
- Perezville160 ft
- La Joya150 ft
- Palmview140 ft
- Havana140 ft
- Palmview South120 ft
- Abram120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,446th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Hidalgo County7th highest of 58
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.