South Houston, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
48 ft 15 m39 ft 12 m35 ft 11 m27 ft 8 m19 ft 6 m15 ft 5 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
South Houston sits at about 30 ft (9 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
30 ft 9 m
most residents: 29–32 ft
Lowest
15 ft 5 m
on the north side
Highest
36 ft 11 m
on the southeast side
Average
30 ft 9 m
all land inside city limits
South Houston is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 21 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 30 ft9 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 36 ft11 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 15 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Houston | 31 ft9 m |
| Airport (HOU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi southwest of the city limits | 46 ft14 m |
| Average of all land | 30 ft9 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Harris County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 16,146 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 5,301 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.6630° N, 95.2355° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- William P Hobby (HOU) 46 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 77587
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Houston61 ft
- Pearland50 ft
- Brookside Village46 ft
- Channelview31 ft
- South Houston30 ft
- Pasadena30 ft
- Deer Park30 ft
- Cloverleaf29 ft
- Friendswood28 ft
- Jacinto City28 ft
- Galena Park26 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,736th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Harris County23rd highest of 37
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.