Terlingua, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,870 ft 875 m2,740 ft 835 m2,670 ft 815 m2,540 ft 775 m2,410 ft 735 m2,340 ft 715 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Terlingua sits at about 2,780 ft (850 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,780 ft 850 m
most residents: 2,580–2,830 ft
Lowest
2,340 ft 715 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,870 ft 875 m
at the foot of the Blue Range
Average
2,570 ft 785 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Terlingua spans about 530 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 | 2,780 ft850 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Blue Range | 2,870 ft875 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Airport (T89) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 2,630 ft802 m |
| Average of all land | 2,570 ft785 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the middle of Terlingua.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Brewster County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 78 2020 Census
- Land area
- 11.0 sq mi
- Density
- 7.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.3187° N, 103.6020° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Terlingua Creek → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lajitas International (T89) 2,630 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 79852
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Davis4,890 ft
- Marfa4,700 ft
- Alpine4,490 ft
- Valentine4,420 ft
- Marathon4,070 ft
- Balmorhea3,190 ft
- Sanderson2,790 ft
- Terlingua2,780 ft
- Presidio2,590 ft
- Study Butte2,580 ft
- Redford2,530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas152nd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Brewster County3rd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Townsend Point7,560 ft
- Lost Mine Peak7,500 ft
- Nine Point Mesa5,530 ft
- Hen Egg Mountain4,990 ft
- Aqua Fria Mountain4,810 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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.
- Terlingua 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.