Scissors, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
100 ft 30 m94 ft 29 m89 ft 27 m81 ft 25 m73 ft 22 m69 ft 21 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
Scissors sits at about 78 ft (24 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
78 ft 24 m
most residents: 72–84 ft
Lowest
69 ft 21 m
on the south side
Highest
86 ft 26 m
on the east side
Average
78 ft 24 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Scissors is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 17 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 78 ft24 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 86 ft26 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 69 ft21 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scissors | 77 ft23 m |
| Airport (MFE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi west of the CDP boundary | 107 ft33 m |
| Average of all land | 78 ft24 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 3,758 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,356 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 26.1398° N, 98.0539° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mc Allen International (MFE) 107 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78537
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North Alamo100 ft
- Alamo98 ft
- South Alamo94 ft
- Donna89 ft
- Midway North80 ft
- Midway South79 ft
- Scissors78 ft
- Weslaco76 ft
- Villa Verde74 ft
- Llano Grande72 ft
- Progreso69 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,579th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Hidalgo County37th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Harmony Hill97 ft
- Sunrise Hill79 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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, 68 ft at 26.1326° N, 98.0568° 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.
- Scissors 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.