Sonora, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,320 ft 705 m2,260 ft 690 m2,240 ft 680 m2,180 ft 665 m2,130 ft 650 m2,100 ft 640 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
Sonora sits at about 2,130 ft (650 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,130 ft 650 m
most residents: 2,120–2,180 ft
Lowest
2,100 ft 640 m
on the south side
Highest
2,320 ft 705 m
on the east side
Average
2,160 ft 655 m
all land inside city limits
Sonora spans about 220 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 | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 2,320 ft705 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 2,100 ft640 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sonora | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Airport (SOA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,140 ft652 m |
| Average of all land | 2,160 ft655 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sutton County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 2,420 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,087 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.5668° N, 100.6434° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Dry Devils River → Devils River → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sonora Municipal (SOA) 2,140 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 76950
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Big Lake2,690 ft
- Eldorado2,430 ft
- Rocksprings2,400 ft
- Ozona2,350 ft
- Mertzon2,220 ft
- Sonora2,130 ft
- Christoval2,080 ft
- Eden2,050 ft
- Menard1,910 ft
- San Angelo1,880 ft
- Junction1,720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas217th highest of 1,861
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.