Sterling County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,760 ft 840 m2,570 ft 785 m2,470 ft 755 m2,280 ft 695 m2,090 ft 640 m2,000 ft 610 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sterling County averages about 2,480 ft (755 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,000 ft on the northeast side to 2,760 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
2,480 ft 755 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,760 ft 840 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the northeast side
Sterling County spans about 760 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,480 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,000 ft610 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Sterling City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Texas, United States
- Population
- 1,387 2024 est.
- Land area
- 923.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Reagan County2,660 ft
- Glasscock County2,650 ft
- Howard County2,520 ft
- Sterling County2,480 ft
- Mitchell County2,180 ft
- Coke County2,130 ft
- Tom Green County2,070 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Texas58th highest of 254
- Counties in the United States491st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Round Top, Sterling County2,540 ft
- McWhorter Mountain2,510 ft
- Snake Mountain2,240 ft
The one town in Sterling County
- Sterling City2,290 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.