Sandy Hollow-Escondidas, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
88 ft 27 m68 ft 21 m58 ft 18 m38 ft 12 m18 ft 5 m8 ft 2 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sandy Hollow-Escondidas sits at about 35 ft (11 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
35 ft 11 m
few residents
Lowest
8 ft 2 m
near the middle
Highest
88 ft 27 m
on the northwest side
Average
38 ft 11 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sandy Hollow-Escondidas spans about 80 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 35 ft11 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 88 ft27 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 8 ft2 m |
| Average of all land | 38 ft11 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the middle of Sandy Hollow-Escondidas.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Nueces County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 342 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 27.9282° N, 97.8015° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Nueces River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 78380 78383
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Westdale210 ft
- Orange Grove200 ft
- K-Bar Ranch190 ft
- South La Paloma160 ft
- Sandia140 ft
- Edroy97 ft
- Rancho Banquete92 ft
- Banquete80 ft
- North San Pedro77 ft
- San Patricio50 ft
- Sandy Hollow-Escondidas35 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,720th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Nueces County13th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chalk Hill, San Patricio County180 ft
- Carmel Hills170 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- 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, −15 ft at 27.9262° N, 97.7876° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Sandy Hollow-Escondidas 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.