Runnels County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,310 ft 705 m2,110 ft 645 m2,010 ft 615 m1,820 ft 555 m1,620 ft 495 m1,530 ft 465 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
Runnels County averages about 1,820 ft (555 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,530 ft on the southeast side to 2,310 ft on Moro Mountain.
Average elevation
1,820 ft 555 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,310 ft 705 m
on Moro Mountain
Lowest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the southeast side
Runnels County spans about 780 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 | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Moro Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,310 ft705 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,530 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
35 mi south to north through Ballinger.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 9,751 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,051.1 sq mi + 6.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.3 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Nolan County2,350 ft
- Coke County2,130 ft
- Tom Green County2,070 ft
- Taylor County2,010 ft
- Concho County1,870 ft
- Runnels County1,820 ft
- Coleman County1,700 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas84th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States682nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Moro Mountain2,310 ft
- Bald Knob, Runnels County2,290 ft
- Table Mountain2,260 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; 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; 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, 1,530 ft at 31.6254° N, 99.8110° 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.