Staples, TX Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Staples, Texas, shaded from 470 ft near the middle to 570 ft on the southeast side
Elevation
570 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 140 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
⤓ Download this map
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

Staples sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 500–540 ft
Lowest
470 ft 140 m
near the middle
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the southeast side
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits

Staples spans about 100 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
530 ft160 m
Highest point
Inside city limits, on the southeast side
570 ft175 m
Lowest point
Inside city limits, near the middle
470 ft140 m
Town center
USGS map point for Staples
520 ft160 m
Airport (HYI)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi north of the city limits
595 ft181 m
Average of all land520 ft160 m

Elevation profile, west to east

0.5 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Staples, Texas, shaded from 470 ft near the middle to 570 ft on the southeast side
City limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 20 ft (6 m).
Location
City in Guadalupe County, Texas, United States
Population
190 2024 est.
Land area
1.5 sq mi
Density
127 per sq mi
Coordinates
29.7813° N, 97.8361° W
Time zone
Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
San Marcos River → Guadalupe River → Gulf of America
Airport
San Marcos Regional (HYI) 595 ft
ZIP codes 3
78638 78655 78670
⤓ Download this map

WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Kyle710 ft
  2. San Marcos630 ft
  3. Redwood600 ft
  4. Lake Dunlap600 ft
  5. Uhland580 ft
  6. Geronimo570 ft
  7. Martindale550 ft
  8. Lockhart530 ft
  9. Kingsbury530 ft
  10. Staples530 ft
  11. Luling400 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Trunk Hill940 ft
  • Mill Creek Hills740 ft
  • Harborth Hill710 ft
  • Koeglar Hill680 ft
  • Bading Hill670 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.