Ranchos Penitas West, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ranchos Penitas West sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 155 m
most residents: 470–500 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the northeast side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ranchos Penitas West 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ranchos Penitas West | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (LRD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 508 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Webb County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 466 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 225 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 27.6742° N, 99.6109° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Laredo International (LRD) 508 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Los Huisaches760 ft
- La Moca Ranch730 ft
- Bonanza Hills720 ft
- Sunset Acres720 ft
- Botines710 ft
- Four Points710 ft
- Los Veteranos II670 ft
- Ranchos Penitas West500 ft
- Los Corralitos490 ft
- Laredo460 ft
- Los Minerales440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas940th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Webb County34th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Loma Blanca, Webb County750 ft
- Cerritos Blancos590 ft
- Loma de las Potrancas580 ft
- El Pico520 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Ranchos Penitas West is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.