Sunset, Starr County, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
280 ft 85 m270 ft 85 m270 ft 80 m250 ft 75 m240 ft 75 m230 ft 70 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sunset, Starr County sits at about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
260 ft 80 m
few residents
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the south side
Highest
280 ft 85 m
on the north side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sunset, Starr County spans about 50 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 280 ft85 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 230 ft70 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.3 mi south to north through the middle of Sunset, Starr County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Starr County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 34 2020 Census
- Land area
- under 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,030 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 26.4246° N, 99.0621° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 78584
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sunset, Starr County260 ft
- Evergreen240 ft
- Ramos230 ft
- Fronton230 ft
- Fronton Ranchettes220 ft
- Guadalupe Guerra210 ft
- Sandoval200 ft
- Roma190 ft
- Loma Vista190 ft
- J.F. Villareal190 ft
- Mesquite, Starr County180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,308th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Starr County25th highest of 115
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gongora Hill340 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- 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.
- Sunset, Starr County 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.