Santa Fe, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
37 ft 11 m29 ft 9 m24 ft 7 m16 ft 5 m8 ft 2 m4 ft 1 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
Santa Fe sits at about 22 ft (7 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
22 ft 7 m
most residents: 17–28 ft
Lowest
4 ft 1 m
on the east side
Highest
34 ft 10 m
on the west side
Average
23 ft 7 m
all land inside city limits
Santa Fe spans about 30 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 | 22 ft7 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 34 ft10 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 4 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Santa Fe | 27 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 23 ft7 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Galveston County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 13,131 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 773 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.3780° N, 95.1058° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 77510 77511 77517
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Alvin39 ft
- Hillcrest Village35 ft
- Santa Fe22 ft
- League City18 ft
- Webster17 ft
- Bacliff15 ft
- Dickinson14 ft
- La Marque13 ft
- Hitchcock12 ft
- Nassau Bay11 ft
- Bayou Vista3 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,769th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Galveston County2nd highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rattlesnake Mound6 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.