The Hills, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m950 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m860 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
The Hills sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 860–960 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the north side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the southwest side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside village limits
The Hills spans about 230 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for The Hills | 840 ft255 m |
| Airport (3R9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi northwest of the village limits | 909 ft277 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Travis County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 2,342 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 2,185 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.3480° N, 97.9850° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lakeway Airpark (3R9) 909 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78738
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bee Cave1,020 ft
- The Hills890 ft
- Lost Creek870 ft
- Lakeway860 ft
- Briarcliff830 ft
- Lago Vista820 ft
- Barton Creek790 ft
- Hudson Bend780 ft
- Steiner Ranch770 ft
- Point Venture760 ft
- Volente740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas467th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Travis County2nd highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chalk Knob, Travis County1,190 ft
- Flint Rock Hill1,190 ft
- Maul Hill1,080 ft
- Dittmar Hill1,070 ft
- Round Mountain, Travis County1,040 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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.