Rusk, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m660 ft 205 m620 ft 190 m530 ft 165 m450 ft 135 m400 ft 125 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
Rusk sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 470–700 ft
Lowest
400 ft 125 m
on the west side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the east side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside city limits
Rusk spans about 350 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 400 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rusk | 520 ft160 m |
| Airport (JSO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi northwest of the city limits | 678 ft207 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cherokee County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 5,553 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.2 sq mi
- Density
- 768 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.7960° N, 95.1502° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Neches River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cherokee County (JSO) 678 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 75785
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rusk560 ft
- Jacksonville490 ft
- Troup460 ft
- New Summerfield450 ft
- Alto430 ft
- Cushing430 ft
- Neches430 ft
- Cuney400 ft
- Gallatin380 ft
- Wells330 ft
- Reklaw300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas826th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Cherokee Countyhighest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bradford Mountain730 ft
- Pryor Mountain690 ft
- Mount Hope690 ft
- Gibson Mountain650 ft
- Reagan Mountain650 ft
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.