Presidio County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,720 ft 2,355 m6,360 ft 1,940 m5,680 ft 1,730 m4,320 ft 1,315 m2,960 ft 905 m2,280 ft 695 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
Presidio County averages about 4,250 ft (1,295 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,280 ft on the southeast side to 7,720 ft on Chinati Peak.
Average elevation
4,250 ft 1,295 m
all land inside the county
Highest
7,720 ft 2,355 m
on Chinati Peak
Lowest
2,280 ft 695 m
on the southeast side
Presidio County spans about 5,440 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 | 4,250 ft1,295 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Chinati Peak (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 7,720 ft2,355 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,280 ft695 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
67 mi south to north through Presidio.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 5,686 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,855.3 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Basin and Range 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 92%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Jeff Davis County4,910 ft
- Presidio County4,250 ft
- Brewster County3,600 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas3rd highest of 254
- Counties in the United States241st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Chinati Peak7,720 ft
- Sierra Parda7,250 ft
- Cleveland Peak6,530 ft
- Cerro Orona6,290 ft
- Capote Peak6,190 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.
- 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.