Rusk County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m590 ft 180 m530 ft 160 m400 ft 125 m280 ft 85 m220 ft 65 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
Rusk County averages about 410 ft (125 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 220 ft on the northeast side to 720 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
410 ft 125 m
all land inside the county
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the south side
Lowest
220 ft 65 m
on the northeast side
Rusk County spans about 500 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 | 410 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 220 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
36 mi south to north through Henderson.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 53,391 2024 est.
- Land area
- 924.2 sq mi + 14.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 58 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Smith County450 ft
- Rusk County410 ft
- Cherokee County390 ft
- Gregg County340 ft
- Nacogdoches County330 ft
- Shelby County310 ft
- Harrison County300 ft
- Panola County280 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas181st highest of 254
- Counties in the United States2,470th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Quinn Mountain640 ft
- Sirls Mountain630 ft
- Holland Mountain530 ft
All 9 towns in Rusk County by typical elevation
- New London520 ft
- Overton500 ft
- Mount Enterprise480 ft
- Henderson480 ft
- Kilgore partly350 ft
- Tatum340 ft
- Lake Cherokee310 ft
- Easton partly310 ft
- Reklaw partly300 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.
- 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, 200 ft at 32.3540° N, 94.4963° 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.