Potter County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,920 ft 1,195 m3,660 ft 1,115 m3,530 ft 1,075 m3,280 ft 1,000 m3,020 ft 920 m2,890 ft 880 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Potter County averages about 3,410 ft (1,040 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,890 ft on the northeast side to 3,920 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
3,410 ft 1,040 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,920 ft 1,195 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
2,890 ft 880 m
on the northeast side
Potter County spans about 1,030 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 | 3,410 ft1,040 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 3,920 ft1,195 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,890 ft880 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
30 mi south to north through Amarillo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 114,649 2024 est.
- Land area
- 908.4 sq mi + 13.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 126 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 83%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Oldham County3,720 ft
- Randall County3,630 ft
- Moore County3,520 ft
- Potter County3,410 ft
- Carson County3,360 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas23rd highest of 254
- Counties in the United States322nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Goat Mountain, Potter County3,770 ft
- Wolf Mountain, Potter County3,710 ft
- John Ray Butte3,670 ft
- Coyote Bluff3,590 ft
- Indian Fort Mesa3,410 ft
All 3 towns in Potter County by typical elevation
- Bushland3,820 ft
- Amarillo3,660 ft
- Bishop Hills3,500 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.